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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 20:38:11 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Newbie Alias and Profile questions
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Can we have a moratorium on the term "newbie" please?  Please
just ask your questions.

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 08:15:28PM -0500, 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.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+is+%2Fetc%2Fskel%3F

>It is a minor thing that i can't clear the screen, but i want to work at 
>this and try to fix this.
>
>
>Then I want to add a script to my profile.   but what one the .profile 
>or .bash_profile ?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+is+.bashrc

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

These are all basic bash questions.  While I'm sure some kind soul will
help you further and we'll likely have a long thread discussing startup
files, you really should be investigating existing resources on the web
for bash.

cgf

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