Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "John Morrison" <john DOT r DOT morrison AT ntlworld DOT com>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Aliases no longer defined?
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 20:45:48 +0100
Message-ID: <NCEBJJFMCAOKNNABBFIMEECGDGAA.john.r.morrison@ntlworld.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
In-Reply-To: <NCEBJJFMCAOKNNABBFIMKECFDGAA.john.r.morrison@ntlworld.com>
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106
Importance: Normal


> From: John Morrison
> > From: Peter Davis
> >
> > What should it be?  I explicitly set HOME to be C:\home in Windows,
> > for the benefit of emacs, etc.  I've done this for years, so it seems
> > to be unrelated to the current problem.  In fact, I just checked, and
> > the results of these commands are the same on my old Win2000 machine,
> > where .bashrc worked.
>
> Hi,
>
> You don't actually need to explicitly set HOME anymore, cygwin's
> come on over the years ;)
>
> Somebody (pardon - I've deleted the mail) correctly said, you need
> to add a . ~/.bashrc (or use source rather than .) to your ~/.bash_profile
>
> Cygwin doesn't run ~/.bashrc by default - as the bash manual recommends.
> It's on the 'todo' list to create a skeleton ~/.bash_profile, but I've
> not got round to making it work correctly, sorry.
>
> Oh, and alias in ~/.bash_profile doesn't (I believe) work, don't know
> why.
>
> You can still set your HOME, there's nothing (that I know of!) wrong
> with doing so.
>
> J.

PS, here's my ~/.bash_profile...

$ cat .bash_profile
# ~/.bash_profile: executed by bash for login shells.

if [ -f /etc/bash.bashrc ] ; then
  source /etc/bash.bashrc
fi

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ] ; then
  source ~/.bashrc
fi


and my ~/.bashrc

$ cat .bashrc
# BASH initialisation file

# dos ALIAS instructions
alias ls="ls --color"
alias mkdir="mkdir -p"
alias dir="ls -l --color"
alias dir/w="ls --color"
alias cd..="cd .."
alias ..="cd .."
alias title="cmd /c title"
alias xargs="xargs --no-run-if-empty"
alias ssh="ssh -C"
alias scp="scp -C"

Hope this helps,

J.


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/