Set screen-title from shellscript

Question

Is it possible to set the Screen Title using a shell script?

I thought about something like sending the key commands ctrl+A shift-

Answer 1

To enable automatic title updating when jumping around with ssh, add this to ~/.bashrc:

ssh() {
  echo -n -e "\033k$1\033\\"
  /usr/bin/ssh "$@"
  echo -n -e "\033k`hostname -s`\033\\"
}
echo -n -e "\033k`hostname -s`\033\\"

See http://linuxepiphany.blogspot.com.ar/2010/05/good-screenrc-config-setup.html