Set the title of the terminal window to the current directory

Depends on your shell. This article displays multiple methods. I personally use zsh which has a convenient precmd() function which is run before each prompt. Although the other questions list bash methods, they alias cd. Bash provides an inherent method that chains off just the prompt. bash bash supplies a variable PROMPT_COMMAND which contains a command to execute before the prompt. This example (inserted in ~/.bashrc) sets the title to "username@hostname: directory": where \033 is the charact…