Set terminal window title in a script

ok, I've found the problem. it was tricky and several different results led to it. but it always wise to figure out our mistakes, so here was mine:

1. i used .bash_profile file with some settings for convenient use (like aliases, coloring, etc.). i just copied that file from my friend and never looked at it thoroughly, however should done this. there are some bash functions which adds to the variable PROMPT_COMMAND the name of current git branch, so it is convenient when you make cd in this folder, the branch is shown automatically in green color near ~ sign, like this: "~master". you can find this in .bash_profile as prompt_func and parse_git_branch functions. they are using git command

2. this profile file always worked well. but at some point (today) it stopped. so i just pulled my bash history and after some thorough exploration and thinking have found the problem. here is the excerpt of output from history:

437 curl -s -O http://github-media-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/osx/git-credential-osxkeychain
438 chmod u+x git-credential-osxkeychain
439 sudo mv git-credential-osxkeychain `which git`

strange command

sudo mv git-credential-osxkeychain `which git`

was intended to move file git-credential-osxkeychain to the directory, where git resides (which git), for my system it is /usr/bin/git. but what actually was made is that this file was moved to the directory /usr/bin with the name git and the directory with the git itself was just overwritten by that file, e.d. gone!! so now, coming back to the scripts functions in .bash_profile which is using git, everything looks simple and obvious - there is no git, but the file named git (which is executable btw - utility for setting up git credentials) and functions use this utility thinking that it is git itself.

therefore now, solution for me is to restore git installation and rename git file back to git-credential-osxkeychain

resume - never write bash code in one-line unless you clearly understand what will bring each statement of it to the results

thanks for all who took part in this.

Try changing the size and position attributes or using System Events instead:

tell application "Terminal"
    tell window 1
        set size to {1150, 850}
        set position to {50, 50}
    end tell
end tell

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Terminal"
    tell window 1
        set size to {1150, 850}
        set position to {50, 50}
    end tell
end tell