I often get lost among terminals in OS X. I forget which is which, or I have trouble resuming a session the next day after a break. To reduce this ‘contextual overhead’, it is nice to name terminals.

Put this in ~/.bash_profile:

function settitle() { echo -n -e "\033]0;$1\007"; }
export -f settitle

Now to set the title of the current terminal:

settitle 'Apache Pig'

And wallah:


High fives to this and this.