Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > If I guessed correctly at what you're trying to accomplish (create aliases > *in your current shell* to duplicate cmd.exe's syntax for switching > drives; not at all obvious from the above description), and how you're > doing it (from the inside of a bash *script*), you seem to have forgotten > that scripts run in a subshell, and aliases created within that subshell > will not get propagated back to the parent shell.
Perfect, that's it! Indeed, I didn't think of *that*. Thus, placing the loop inside /etc/alias which is sourced from /etc/profile with the line: test -e /etc/alias && . /etc/alias it'll create my intended drive letter assignments a:, b:, c: etc. And Larry's right, this isn't Cygwin specific... Thank you very much, Igor. Greetings, Michael -- +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++ Neu: Preissenkung für MMS und FreeMMS! http://www.gmx.net -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
