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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:00:20 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: "Chaikin, Yaakov Y (US SSA)" <yaakov DOT y DOT chaikin AT baesystems DOT com> cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: alias: not found In-Reply-To: <728813C3358BF04CB3A3DA2341D44A719D757A@e2k11.na.baesystems.com> Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0403251458420.19054@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> References: <728813C3358BF04CB3A3DA2341D44A719D757A AT e2k11 DOT na DOT baesystems DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Chaikin, Yaakov Y (US SSA) wrote: > Hi, > > I am using WinXP Pro. Created .profile file with the following line: > .bashrc It should be ". .bashrc", actually... > Then, I created .bashrc file with the following line: > alias cl clear > > Restarted cygwin and got the following error message: > alias: not found Which shell are you running? Sounds like "sh". > Am I missing a package that I should download and install? If so, which > package? > > Thanks, > Yaakov. It's usually not a good idea to put bash-specific commands in .profile, as sh also uses it. You can use .bash_profile for bash instead. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/