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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 20:26:28 -0500
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Subject: Re: Newbie Alias and Profile questions
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On 2/10/2014 8:15 PM, Mike Rushton wrote:
> Can some one give me some hints about this ?
>
> I read the documentation and can't figure this out.
>
> I am trying to put an alias in a .bashrc
>
> alias clear='printf "\033c"'
>
> But what .bashrc do I put this in ?  in /ect/skel or the one my user
> directory.   I put this code in and it seems to get overwritten.
> I don't understand what I am doing wrong.

Overwritten?  By what?  What's your home directory?

> It is a minor thing that i can't clear the screen, but i want to work at
> this and try to fix this.

OK but 'clear' will do what you want.

> Then I want to add a script to my profile.   but what one the .profile or
> .bash_profile ?

Unless you want it available to all users and other shells, put it in your
.bash_profile.

> Other that these problems, I am converting my Korn shell scripts to bash
> under Cygwin and it is going pretty good so far.

FYI, at least the last 2 questions above are general UNIX/Linux questions.
You should consult a good UNIX/Linux resource for some basic user tutorials
and guides.


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Larry

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