Setting title not working with xterm on RHEL 6

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Setting title not working with xterm on RHEL 6.3

  • Using xterm opened on sever and running the command does not result in the title being set at the top of the xterm window:

echo -ne '\033]0;${t}\007'

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

  • KSH User Shell

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