{"id":9951,"date":"2006-07-21T03:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2006\/07\/21\/setting-the-console-title-to-be-your-current-working-directory\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:21:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:21:31","slug":"setting-the-console-title-to-be-your-current-working-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/setting-the-console-title-to-be-your-current-working-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting the console title to be your current working directory"},"content":{"rendered":"

jmanning wrote:<\/p>\n

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Also, given how common the request is, I’d ask Jeffrey to (pretty-please) also include in this post a prompt function that sets the title to include pwd.
<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ask and yea shall receive: <\/p>\n

function Prompt
{
  $host.ui.RawUI.WindowTitle = $(get-location)
  “PS> “
}<\/font><\/p>\n

If you want to see a bunch of great prompt examples, check out:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/mshforfun.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/perfect-prompt-for-windows-powershell.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
Windows PowerShell\/Aspen Architect
Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:    http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell<\/a>
Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at:  http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

PSMDTAG:FAQ:  How do I set the Console Title to my current working directory?<\/p>\n

PSMDTAG:SHELL: Prompt <\/p>\n

PSMDTAG:ENVIRONMENT: Prompt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

jmanning wrote: Also, given how common the request is, I’d ask Jeffrey to (pretty-please) also include in this post a prompt function that sets the title to include pwd. Ask and yea shall receive: function Prompt{  $host.ui.RawUI.WindowTitle = $(get-location)  “PS> “} If you want to see a bunch of great prompt examples, check out: http:\/\/mshforfun.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/perfect-prompt-for-windows-powershell.html […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,10,58,21],"class_list":["post-9951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell","tag-environment","tag-faq","tag-prompt-function","tag-shell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

jmanning wrote: Also, given how common the request is, I’d ask Jeffrey to (pretty-please) also include in this post a prompt function that sets the title to include pwd. Ask and yea shall receive: function Prompt{  $host.ui.RawUI.WindowTitle = $(get-location)  “PS> “} If you want to see a bunch of great prompt examples, check out: http:\/\/mshforfun.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/perfect-prompt-for-windows-powershell.html […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}