MacOS – How to get local directory names into terminal window titles

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The title of my terminal window is:

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This is how I see them listed in Terminal->Window and it is very hard to know which one is which.

When I use multiple terminals, the most important information is the local directory in each of them.

Is there any way to have that local directory appear in the titles, so I could see easily which terminal is from where?

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Go to Preferences -> Profiles -> Window and check those things you would like to see in the terminal window title.

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MYTTY=`tty`
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With the \033]0;TEXT\007 escape sequence.

Example of use in Bash: echo -ne "\033]0;$PWD\007"

Which you could add to your $PROMPT_COMMAND if you use Bash, or otherwise attach to you PS1 so it gets re-evaluated often.

Example: export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;$PWD\007"'

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