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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 21:13:45 -0500
From: Mike Rushton <mrushton AT ptd DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Newbie Alias and Profile questions
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Well let me work at it tomorrow.

I know how to do this on other unix systems, just that Cygwin is not 
acting as I am used too.

I have done things like this on some versions of RHEL, UnixWare,  Xenix, 
MKS Tookit.

I guess I have to keep reading the Documentation and trying things.

( and no more use of the term Newbie :-)  )


On 2/10/2014 8:26 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 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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