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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:21:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Peter Davis <pd AT world DOT std DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Aliases no longer defined?
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Peter Davis wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 03:52:09PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >
> > Peter,
> >
> > Note how I took your own value, and simply used the correct bash commands
> > to associate it with an alias/shell function.  I'll give another example,
> > perhaps the pattern will become clear:
> >
> > Change
> >       set stunnel='/cygdrive/c/stunnel/stunnel-3.22 -c -d pop3 -r mail.attbi.com:995&'
> >       export stunnel
> > into either
> >       alias stunnel='/cygdrive/c/stunnel/stunnel-3.22 -c -d pop3 -r mail.attbi.com:995&'
> > or
> >       stunnel () { /cygdrive/c/stunnel/stunnel-3.22 -c -d pop3 -r mail.attbi.com:995 & }
> >       export stunnel
> >
> > Does the above make it clearer?
>
>
> D'oh!  This is what this file originally said.  It was all
>
> alias x=y
> export x
>
> When this failed to work on my new Cygwin installation, I changed them
> all to
>
> export x=y
>
> That still didn't work, so I changed them back ... to "set".  D'oh.
> That was my own stupid fault.  Anyway, that wasn't working, but now it
> seems to be.  I just did 'source ~/.bashrc' again, and all seems well.
>
> I'll double check this on my home system, where I did *not* tamper
> with the .bashrc file.
>
> Thanks for all your help on this.
>
> Can you give me a hint how to add some directories to my PATH and
> MANPATH variables in the .bashrc?
>
> Thanks *very* much!
> -pd

Since .bashrc is "source"d, simply setting (and exporting) them should
work.  However, as this is a general bash question, it's off-topic for
this list.
	Igor
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