X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:49:53 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem with aliases in bash as login shell Message-ID: <20081121154953.GA23705@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <574BF80562AF37419EA4B003C90D756D06E28550@EXCHANGE1.belgium.fhm.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:10:32AM -0600, Ryan Stewart wrote: >On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Morche Matthias > wrote: >> I bet Your line with the call of .bashrc from .bash_profile looks like >> .bashrc >> change it to >> . .bashrc >> and it will do what You intend and then RTFM for an explanation :-) >> >Thanks. I'm a linux nub. It took a good bit of looking to find an >explanation though, especially since no search engine understands "." >as a search term. Type "info bash" or "man bash" and then: / \. ^ ^ space here to searche for space dot space. This may not hit the appropriate description in the first try but typing "n" will get you there quickly. Also, knowing that "." is a command you can look under "SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS". -- 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/