Re: alias: not found

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

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
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