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Subject: Re: using aliases for cygwin commands on win2k
From: Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: anoop AT alumni DOT duke DOT edu
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Date: 18 Sep 2001 08:41:55 +1000
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On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 08:37, Anoop Ghanwani wrote:
> I wanted to find out how to use aliases for cygwin commands
> on win2k.  The cygwin commands are located at c:\cygwin\bin.
> I don't run bash, but I still use commands such as ls, grep, rm, mv.
> I would like to create aliases for these commands such as
> alias ls 'ls -lF' and so on.  How do I do something like this?

Run bash/tcsh/ksh. Do not run cmd.exe.
 
Rob


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