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Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 20:21:53 -0500
To: svartsjel AT gmx DOT net, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: bash loop troubles
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At 07:57 PM 12/6/2003, svartsjel AT gmx DOT net you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I tried to run the following bash script:
>
>for drive in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
>do
>   alias ${drive}:="cd /cygdrive/${drive}"
>done
>
>I guess, the syntax for the loop is okay, if I replace the alias line with a
>simple echo command:
>
>echo $drive
>
>I get
>
>a
>b
>...
>
>and so on.
>
>Doing the following (both at the prompt and within a bash script):
>
>drive='c'; alias $drive:="cd /cygdrive/$drive"
>
>will lead to the alias as expected. Merely inside the loop it just doesn't
>seem to work.
>Any hints?


You haven't stated what doesn't work about your script as you defined it
above.  Works fine for me in bash.  Are you running the script as /bin/bash
or as /bin/sh?  

 From the information given so far, it's not obvious that this is a Cygwin
issue.  If this is not a Cygwin-specific issue, it's off-topic for this list.



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