How does one set aliases for Cygwin for XP Prof Windows? - Still doesn't work!

[Ken Dibble]

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] 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?
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>Patrick Sullivan wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I looked around and couldn't find out (from user guide or FAQs) how to
>>set my own alias settings for Cygwin.
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>>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?
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>If you are talking about aliases within the bash shell, setting them in 
>~/.bashrc is a place used by many.
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>Regards,
>Ken
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>Patrick Sullivan wrote:
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>  Ken,
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>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...
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>I tried putting them in as follows:
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>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'
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>Thanks,
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>Pat//
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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
----
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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