.bashrc question

[Jim Roberts]

On 12/20/05, Luke Vanderfluit <lvanderf@internode.com.au> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have been trying to get an alias to work.
>
> I start my bash shell from cygwin.bat with the following command:
>
> bash --login -i -c 'rxvt -geometry 80x29 -sb -sl 10000 -bg Black -fg
> green -bd LightSeaGreen -fn Courier -font 7x15'
>

Try launching rxvt like this:

C:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -geometry 80x29 -sb -sl 10000 -bg Black -fg
green -bd LightSeaGreen -fn Courier -font 7x15 -e /usr/bin/bash
--login -i

> Then I set an alias.
> I've tried ~/.bashrc ~/.profile ~/.bash_profile /etc/profile,
> but can't get the alias to 'take'.
>

It's fine in ~/.bashrc

> Thanks for any help.
> Kind regards.
>
> --
> Luke