change the terminal title dynamically in X11

I was actually looking for this for quite sometime. Some years back in my bashrc was the proper setting for setting the terminal title when I did a cd, and I had completely forgotten how to do it. So today I searched quite a few commands the environment variables for doing the same and found it again.

Here it is (Just put this in your bashrc or bash_profile):

export PROMPT_COMMAND=’echo -ne ”\033]0;`pwd`”; echo -ne ”\007”’

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bash colors

For those of the terminal freaks, color is a bliss. But have you tried all the colors in the terminal. Today someone forwarded me a bash one liner for the same. Not sure where he got this from, anyway here is the one liner for you all: