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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Ken Dibble
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 3:02 PM
To: cygwin
Subject: Re: How does one set aliases for Cygwin for XP Prof Windows?
Patrick Sullivan wrote:
Hi,
I looked around and couldn't find out (from user guide or FAQs) how to
set my own alias settings for Cygwin.
I have Cywin installed on my PC (running Windows XP Professional).
There has to be a file somewhere, where I can add the alias settings,
but I am not sure where it is. Does anyone know where the file is for
putting personal alias settings?
If you are talking about aliases within the bash shell, setting them in
~/.bashrc is a place used by many.
Regards,
Ken
Patrick Sullivan wrote:
Ken,
It still doesn't work after putting the aliases in ~/.bashrc )-:
I also tried putting them in ~/profile.ksh but it didn't work either.
I did this one time, and there was a file in a certain location where I
added them to, but I don't remember where it was...
I tried putting them in as follows:
alias ll='ls -l'
alias h='history'
alias main='cd /cygdrive/c/depot/source/main'
alias ob2='cd /cygdrive/c/depot/Projects/ob2'
alias depot='cd /cygdrive/c/depot'
Thanks,
Pat//
You .bash_profile should look like:
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# ~/.bash_profile: executed by bash for login shells.
if [ -e /etc/bash.bashrc ] ; then
source /etc/bash.bashrc
fi
if [ -e ~/.bashrc ] ; then
source ~/.bashrc
fi
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If memory serves, this is the default .bash_profile.
This would make sure that .bashrc gets executed whether your shell is a
login or not.
If this is indeed your .bash_profile, I would next check permissions on
both files to make sure they
are executable.
I am assuming that your login shell is bash.
If it still doesn't work, what happens when you source these files from
a command prompt?
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