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

I tried this on Ubuntu 18.10 and it only worked with PROMPT_COMMAND in ~/.bashrc. And if you override PROMPT_COMMAND, the behavior of the title changes slightly. I decided to change only if necessary:

t() {
  TITLE="$@"
  PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${TITLE}\007"'
}

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