Working through my Project Euler problems in Clojure, I wound up having a number of Terminal windows open at the same time: one for the REPL, one for a prompt to commit to my Project Euler git repo, one for a Midje program, one to start the Light Table Playground, and various others with other things I had going on.

With all of these windows, getting stacked on top of one another I was losing track of which Terminal window was which when I went to the Window menu for Terminal to get to the window I wanted.

I found this post Mac OS X Change the Terminal Window Title and then followed the instructions to get a nice little shell program setup to set the title of the window.

echo -n -e "33]0;$107"

Where I use the $1 instead the title itself, or a environment variable, per his two examples, to be able to have the first argument to the script, so now I can just run:

title "Light Table Playground"

I just figured I would share my find for anyone out there who hasn’t yet stumbled across it yet.

–Proctor