There are a few ways to set the title of a windows terminal tab, but no way to read the title #23443

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opened 2026-01-31 08:42:21 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @markyoung2u on GitHub (Jul 17, 2025).

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I setup a cmd prompt to open 5 different tabs. One for misc window stuff and the other 4 for compiling 2 UEFI apps in X64 and ARM64 modes. I'd like to "read" the title I set up with "wt -w 0 --title %tabtitle% cmd /k cmdSetup.bat xxxx" where tabtitle is set to different strings in the initial tab but each of the other 4 tabs do not know the value of %tabtitle%. It seems pretty basic if we can set the title we should be able to read it, too

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Originally created by @markyoung2u on GitHub (Jul 17, 2025). ### Description of the new feature I setup a cmd prompt to open 5 different tabs. One for misc window stuff and the other 4 for compiling 2 UEFI apps in X64 and ARM64 modes. I'd like to "read" the title I set up with "wt -w 0 --title %tabtitle% cmd /k cmdSetup.bat xxxx" where tabtitle is set to different strings in the initial tab but each of the other 4 tabs do not know the value of %tabtitle%. It seems pretty basic if we can set the title we should be able to read it, too ### Proposed technical implementation details _No response_
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Reference: starred/terminal#23443