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

I was having your same problem - but I saw the tab name briefly flash before going to back to what it was: the shell and the cwd. Turns out I had an environment variable changing the tab name on every shell command, so this fixed it for me:

export PROMPT_COMMAND=''

Now: echo -e "\033];MY_NEW_TITLE\007"

..works just fine and persists.