How do I set Mac OS X 10.6 Terminal tab title programmatically?

Question

I'm trying to learn Applescript as I'd like to, eventually, programmatically set the title of the tab in Terminal to whatever context I'm currently working in. Should be a simple task and I've gotten it almost right I think. This is my experimental code so far...

tell application "Terminal"
    activate
    set frontIndex to index of the first window whose frontmost is true
    tell window frontIndex
        set title displays custom title of selected tab to true
        set custom title of selected tab to "Bazzy"
    end tell
end tell

The problem is that when I set the tab's title, the title of all other tabs also get set. However, if I right-click and inspect a tab and then set the title manually on that tab, its title is not affected when I run my code and the title I manually typed in remains. It's as though the title displays custom title property is not being read or perhaps this property does not do what I think it does.

How can I set the title of exactly one tab to a custom value?

Answer 1

I you're executing the script from the Terminal itself you can use a simple echo, e.g.:

echo -n -e "\033]0;Tech-Recipes rules\007"

It event works if you put it inside $PS1 so that it changes each time the prompt is rendered.

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