Populate titlebar in any term

fak3r (fak3r) — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:28:35 GMT

Populate your titlebar in any term with some useful info such as uname -a, architecture, if you're ROOT or not, etc. In Linux:



#!/bin/bash

HOST_NAME=`hostname -f`

if [ `id -u` = 0 ]; then

OPT=”`uname` (`uname -a | cut -f12 -d’ ‘ -`) - ROOT USER”

else

OPT=”`uname` (`uname -a | cut -f12 -d’ ‘ -`)”

fi

REPLACE=”${HOST_NAME} - ${OPT}”

echo -n -e “\033]0; $REPLACE \007 “

echo “${REPLACE}”

exit 0

Then run this script, and your termtitle will be something like the following:



Servername (Linux / x86_64).

For Solaris it needs to be done a bit differently:



#!/usr/local/bin/bash

HOST_NAME=`uname -a | cut -f2 -d’ ‘ -`

OPT=”(`uname -a | cut -f1 -d’ ‘ -` / `uname -a | cut -f6 -d’ ‘`)”

REPLACE=”${HOST_NAME} - ${OPT}”

echo -n -e “\033]0; $REPLACE \007 “

echo “${REPLACE}”

exit 0

Add/remove things from the OPT= line to customize. To test it, just issue the command on the commandline without the ()'s to see what it'll look like.

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