title

Package: WA2L/edrc 1.5.57
Section: General Commands (1)
Updated: 22 January 2013
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NAME

title - set terminal window title

 

SYNOPSIS

edrc/bin/title [ -h ]

title [ short | long | text ]

 

AVAILABILITY

WA2L/edrc

 

DESCRIPTION

set the title of the terminal window. There are two predefined titles that can be chosen using the short or long option. It is also possible to define an own title text.

The title of the terminal window is only set, if you are logged on to a tty using a /dev/pts/* device.

 

OPTIONS

-h
usage message.

short
set title to 'user@hostname'. This is also the default if no option is specified.
Example: 'root@acme001'

long
set title to 'user@hostname -- Customer: [ENVIRONMENT] Description' where Customer, ENVIRONMENT and Description is resolved by server_environment(3) internally.
Example: 'root@acme001 -- ACME: [PRODUCTION] Beringen, Acme Production'

text
free form title text.

 

ENVIRONMENT

-

 

EXIT STATUS

0
always.

 

FILES

-

 

EXAMPLES

-

 

SEE ALSO

edrcintro(1), hostname(1), server_environment(3)

 

NOTES

The title command is also used within edrc to set the terminal window title.

 

BUGS

-

 

AUTHOR

title was developed by Christian Walther. Send suggestions and bug reports to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net .

 

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2013 Christian Walther

This is free software; see edrc/doc/COPYING for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
AVAILABILITY
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT
EXIT STATUS
FILES
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
NOTES
BUGS
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT

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