Change gnome-terminal title to reflect the current directory?

Question

I want to change the title of the gnome-terminal window to reflect the current directory. Is there a way to do that? A script may be? The \"change terminal title\" threads did n

Answer 1

since gnome-terminal uses the same control commands as xterm this page might be helpful.

Xterm Title for bash and other shells

TL;DR:

add following to your .bashrc

PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'