On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Peter Davis wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 03:52:09PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >
> > Peter,
> >
> > Note how I took your own value, and simply used the correct bash commands
> > to associate it with an alias/shell function. I'll give another example,
> > perhaps the pattern will become clear:
> >
> > Change
> > set stunnel='/cygdrive/c/stunnel/stunnel-3.22 -c -d pop3 -r
> > mail.attbi.com:995&'
> > export stunnel
> > into either
> > alias stunnel='/cygdrive/c/stunnel/stunnel-3.22 -c -d pop3 -r
> > mail.attbi.com:995&'
> > or
> > stunnel () { /cygdrive/c/stunnel/stunnel-3.22 -c -d pop3 -r
> > mail.attbi.com:995 & }
> > export stunnel
> >
> > Does the above make it clearer?
>
>
> D'oh! This is what this file originally said. It was all
>
> alias x=y
> export x
>
> When this failed to work on my new Cygwin installation, I changed them
> all to
>
> export x=y
>
> That still didn't work, so I changed them back ... to "set". D'oh.
> That was my own stupid fault. Anyway, that wasn't working, but now it
> seems to be. I just did 'source ~/.bashrc' again, and all seems well.
>
> I'll double check this on my home system, where I did *not* tamper
> with the .bashrc file.
>
> Thanks for all your help on this.
>
> Can you give me a hint how to add some directories to my PATH and
> MANPATH variables in the .bashrc?
>
> Thanks *very* much!
> -pd
Since .bashrc is "source"d, simply setting (and exporting) them should
work. However, as this is a general bash question, it's off-topic for
this list.
Igor
--
http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
|\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski
'---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow!
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
-- Leto II
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
