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

I'm doing it like this to override the cd command and set pwd into the title:

function title { echo -en "\033]2;$1\007"; }
function cd { dir=$1; if [ -z "$dir" ]; then dir=~; fi; builtin cd "$dir" && title `pwd`; }
cd `pwd`

I just threw this into my ~/.bash_aliases. You could probably tweak this to do what you want.