X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <43A79F78.6060603@internode.com.au> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:36:48 +1030 From: Luke Vanderfluit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: .bashrc question References: <43A790C4.4050302@internode.com.au> <83b1d5e80512192154j37ffc1b2s9b64a191252c596b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <83b1d5e80512192154j37ffc1b2s9b64a191252c596b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Hi Jim. Jim Roberts wrote: >On 12/20/05, Luke Vanderfluit wrote: > > >>Hi. >> >>I have been trying to get an alias to work. >> >>I start my bash shell from cygwin.bat with the following command: >> >>bash --login -i -c 'rxvt -geometry 80x29 -sb -sl 10000 -bg Black -fg >>green -bd LightSeaGreen -fn Courier -font 7x15' >> >> >> > >Try launching rxvt like this: > >C:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -geometry 80x29 -sb -sl 10000 -bg Black -fg >green -bd LightSeaGreen -fn Courier -font 7x15 -e /usr/bin/bash >--login -i > > > Hurrah, that worked. Thanks :-) Kind regards. >>Then I set an alias. >>I've tried ~/.bashrc ~/.profile ~/.bash_profile /etc/profile, >>but can't get the alias to 'take'. >> >> >> > >It's fine in ~/.bashrc > > > >>Thanks for any help. >>Kind regards. >> >>-- >>Luke >> >> > > > -- Luke -- 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/