Searching in the web, I found out the problem: Cygwin requires unix line breaks, the ones I supplied were created in windows:(
On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 9:42 PM Nikos Balkanas <nbalka...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to source the file .alias in my ~/.bashrc file: > > echo "alias = $(ls -la ~/.alias)" > . ~/.alias > > I get: > > alias = -rwxr-xr-x 1 <user> None 117 Jul 20 20:15 /home/<user>/.alias > : No such file or directory > > Seems ls understands fine the ~/.alias notation and the file exists. > Sourcing, however, doesn't. Or is it that sourcing doesn't work in cygwin? > Can't understand from the error:( > > TIA > Nikos > > Attached is the zipped cygcheck output with user crossed out -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple