How does this script for naming iTerm tabs work?

Question

I\'m trying to name my iTerm tabs and found this link. Here is the pertinent part of the guy\'s post:

I wrote a simple script, which I call “nametab”, whi

Answer 1

If you want to have an alias for changing the tab name, you can actually do it by defining a function in your .profile/.bashrc file like this:

function renametab () {
    echo -ne "\033]0;"$@"\007"
}