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azeemshaikh38
azeemshaikh38

Reputation: 191

UNIX: How does this command change my terminal name?

I found this online and verified that the command:

echo "\033]0;Name\007"

Changes my term name to "Name". I'm just wondering why and how does this happen, so that I can tweak this and use it in my scripts accordingly.

Thanks for the help in advance.

Azeem

Upvotes: 0

Views: 559

Answers (1)

Maxime Alvarez
Maxime Alvarez

Reputation: 180

Found this (\033 is the sequence for ESC) :

ESC ] 0 ; txt ST        Set icon name and window title to txt.

In the man page : http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man4/console_codes.4.html

So, Linux console implements :

a large subset of the VT102 and ECMA-48/ISO 6429/ANSI X3.64 terminal controls

However this methods does not seems to be portable because it depends of the implementation of the terminal.

Upvotes: 1

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