====== Display path in title bar of XTerm session ======
Handy when you have multiple XTerms open, and need to keep track of where you are when you switch between them.

Edit your .profile (or .bashrc, as the case may be):

<code bash>vi .profile</code>

Add this if you want to show symbolic directory links in relative form:

<code bash>case $TERM in
xterm*|rxvt)
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER} ${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
;;
esac</code>

If you’d prefer to see the physical path of a symbolic link, use this instead:

<code bash>case $TERM in
xterm*|rxvt)
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER} ${HOSTNAME}: $( pwd -P )\007"'
;;
esac</code>

For example, given the following symbolic link:

<code>data -> /cygdrive/c/data</code>

The first version will display it like this:

<code>[user] [host]: ~/[user]/data</code>

…and the second version will display it like this:

<code>[user] [host]: /cygdrive/c/data</code>