X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=OK5vQIBZ9LK/c3wCursGAID/fpmnBUmxmaHpjeorKM7 0TMDigZo2nEgVmhwUrlMzacJGpg0/vOjYQ/CIM2NVT5dzVO07WyueqhY7xqeWNdG yre03OwF9xaLeHGeRFtqWxZPvc7/7Y4BBn1ijJ4BJQIDctgo2MW+R++1R/CQYkMY = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=79UEe8Jd0IHZ6SmvbQfqPzpZ7jA=; b=dmHq2ABsSw/vYjuzR gpBn3vppOHBFIxxshfg8++MLyxAnxxtw8rv+t8cBR7ciuGvYPMxdFI2xG3ofuiSS roL+MVFL5Xh9HLHQmOPJjdO25O8SCxfthMJCLmQhiKS6soWD4AInB4YeVrKSx2aj DfydGrTa2yedpnqGQjRAbRl+ZM= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: proxyz12.mailnet.ptd.net Message-ID: <52F98759.6040101@ptd.net> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 21:13:45 -0500 From: Mike Rushton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Newbie Alias and Profile questions References: <52F979B0 DOT 2080604 AT ptd DOT net> <52F97C44 DOT 7060508 AT cygwin DOT com> In-Reply-To: <52F97C44.7060508@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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. > > > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple