I use GNU screen a lot with zsh as my shell.  It would be a nice feature (I think) to be able to display the current directory name (not the full path) as the tab title.  I can do that with CTRL+A SHIFT+A but that is manual.  I would like it to change whenever I change directory. Does anyone know of a way to do this? Edit: The answer also feature the solution for bash.
Screen status bar to display current directory for zsh/bash shell
bash;zsh;gnu screen
For zsh:Put this in your ~/.zsh[centos@centos ~]$ cat .zshif [[ ${TERM} == screen-bce || ${TERM} == screen ]]; then  precmd () { print -Pn \033k\033\134\033k%m[%1d]\033\134 }  preexec () { print -Pn \033k\033\134\033k%m[$1]\033\134 }else  precmd () { print -Pn \e]0;%n@%m: %~\a }  preexec () { print -Pn \e]0;%n@%m: $1\a }fiPS1=$'%{\e[0;32m%}%m%{\e[0m%}:%~> 'export PS1[centos@centos ~]$ In your ~/.screenrchardstatus string %hcaption always %{= kw} %-w%{= wk}%n*%t%{-}%+w%{= kw} %=%d %M %0c %{g}%H%{-}