On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 21:50:18 +0200, Paul Foote wrote: > I gave it a little try, but the problem is figuring out which one is the > forground proccess. the only way that I could figure it out was using w, > and some grep magic, but its a well known fact that if you run w, or ps, > or anything like that then that proccess becomes your forground process, > avoiding the entire idea of doing this completely.
Yo :-) > My suggestion is that > you do some shell scripting to figure out each proccess running from that > terminal and append it to the title, excluding bash. But where can I plug in a shell script? When the user types in $ rm -rf / and pushes the Enter key - how will I know? csh seems to have a precmd function which the user can define and which is executed before each command. The only thing that comes close in bash is PROMPT_COMMAND. But that's obviously executed _after_ a command was run. > > If you do pop into something that does fix this up (even a source patch to > bash, but not like I really feel like playing with that any time soon) let > the list know plz :) I'm close to hacking bash out of pure frustration :-) -- Best Regards, | Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into Sebastian | your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
