Mac OS X change the terminal window title
Contributed by macster 
September 22, 2004 
Tagged: Apple Mac
The title of the Mac OS X terminal window can easily be changed. This can be useful when running a script or when using multiple terminal windows for different purposes to easily identify them when switching between applications and windows.
In the terminal window, from a bash prompt (the default shell) or in a bash shell script, use the following command to change the terminal window title to Tech-Recipes rules:
echo -n -e "\033]0;Tech-Recipes rules\007"
You can place (just about) any text in place of Tech-Recipes rules including the contents of a variable. For example:
name=`hostname`
echo -n -e "\033]0;$name\007"
This will change the title of the terminal to the hostname of the computer running the shell.
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