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Mac Terminal /bin/settitle.sh: No such file or directory

I'm trying to create a bash script to change the titles of my terminal windows so I can identify what they are doing. I spent a few hours on this and cant figure it out. The idea is to be able to execute settitle NewTitle. Thank you.

This is my echo:$PATH. It looks like Users/klik/bin is there twice. Maybe that is the issue? 

~ klik echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/Users/klik/bin:/Users/klik/bin

This is the script which was created in textedit in plain text format.

#!/bin/bash

# settitle: set the Mac Terminal title
# usage:    to set the titlebar to 'PLAY', type:  settitle PLAY

echo -e "\033]0;${1}\007\c"

This is my bash_profile and bin file.

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
        source ~/.bashrc
fi
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
alias desk='cd ~/Desktop/'
alias down='cd ~/Downloads/'
alias github='cd ~/github/'

bash_profile

This is my ls -a output ls -a output

Current directories Current Directories

~ klik ls -l $HOME/bin | pbcopy

total 8 -rwx--x--x@ 1 klik staff 147 Mar 9 21:39 settitle.sh

Solution

  • This issue above was that the file was saved with .txt extension. I dont know why this was the case given the ls command showed a .sh ext. At any rate, this is the process I used for creating this script and and executing it.

    Open Finder -> Applications->TextEdit in Mac. Select New Document at bottom left. From menu select Format -> Make Plain Text Paste in this code:

    #!/bin/sh

# settitle: set the Mac Terminal title
# usage:    to set the titlebar to 'PLAY', type:  settitle PLAY

echo "\033]0;${1}\007\c"

    Thanks to Alvin Alexander for the code.

    Still in TextEdit select menu File -> Save Uncheck "If no extension is provided, use ".txt" " When I chose my file name I saved it with no extension so i could just type the command settitle NewTitle without having to type the extension every time. Note the folder the file is being saved to. It defaults to desktop on my machine.

    Open Finder -> Go -> Go to Folder

    Type in the path to your User Bin folder: mine was /Users/klik/bin You can check to see if you have a User/bin folder by running: ls -l from your home directory. If you don't have a bin folder in this directory you can create one by going to your $HOME directory and executing:

    mkdir bin

    To find out what is your home directory see this

    You can then open the directory by executing:

    open bin

    This will open the folder in Finder. Drag the script file you created into this folder. Make sure the script is executable by executing the following command from the folder the file is in or by including the path to the file in name of file:

    chmod +x <name of file>

    Make sure that the script is in your executable $PATH by executing:

    echo $PATH

    You will get something like this: 

    /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/Users/<you>/bin

    If you dont see the path of your script, ie /Users/''/bin, then the script file is not in your executable path and you need to put it in your .bash_profile. Execute ls -l to see if you have a .bash_profile file.

    ls -l

    If you don't have one, make sure your are in your $HOME directory then create one by executing:

    mkdir .bash_profile

    Open your .bash_profile file in your default editor:

    open .bash_profile

    Or open with nano (to save and close nano see this link):

    nano .bash_profile

    Add the following line to the .bash_profile then save/close:

    export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

    Exit the terminal to reset by executing:

    exit

    Open the terminal then type:

    settitle <whateveryouwant>

    I hope this saves someone some time. Thanks to Mark Setchell for his constructive help.