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Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 12:28:31 +0100 (MET)
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> If I guessed correctly at what you're trying to accomplish (create aliases
> *in your current shell* to duplicate cmd.exe's syntax for switching
> drives; not at all obvious from the above description), and how you're
> doing it (from the inside of a bash *script*), you seem to have forgotten
> that scripts run in a subshell, and aliases created within that subshell
> will not get propagated back to the parent shell.

Perfect, that's it! Indeed, I didn't think of *that*.
Thus, placing the loop inside /etc/alias which is sourced from /etc/profile
with
the line:

test -e /etc/alias && . /etc/alias

it'll create my intended drive letter assignments a:, b:, c: etc.
And Larry's right, this isn't Cygwin specific...

Thank you very much, Igor.
Greetings,

Michael


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