Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/06/07/14:35:04
Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Constantine wrote:
>
>
>
>>Hello!
>>
>>I am a FreeBSD user. I always get an error on cygwins' bash shell that
>>there are no such commands as ll, la and h. How can I add aliases to
>>these commands to the standard bash shell under cygwin? I have tried to
>>copy .cshrc and .shrc from FreeBSD ~ to cygwin ~, and restarting the
>>shell, but it does not seem to help, does it?
>>
>>
>
>If you stick something like
>
> [elfyn AT ellixia libxslt-1.0.27-1]$ cat ~/.rc/aliases
> # ~/.rc/aliases: Shell Aliases
> #
> # This file contains Bash shell aliases for programs
> # and scripts.
>
> # Directory listings
> alias ls='/bin/ls --color=tty'
> alias la='/bin/ls -a --color=tty'
> alias ll='/bin/ls -l --color=tty'
> alias lal='/bin/ls -al --color=tty'
> [...]
>
>this in your `~/.bash_profile' file (or add them globaly in a script in
>`/etc/profile.d') you'll have you ls aliases. I don't know what h is an alias
>for, though. `head' perhaps? Anyhow, that should be enough to get you your
>aliases.
>
>IIRC, your shell (bash) will have to be a login shell for `~/.bash_profile' to
>be sourced.
>
>Elfyn
>
Thank you very much indeed!
h stands for history. :-)
Cheers,
Constantine.
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