.bashrc question

Luke Vanderfluit lvanderf@internode.com.au
Tue Dec 20 06:06:00 GMT 2005


Hi Jim.

Jim Roberts wrote:

>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
>
>  
>
Hurrah, that worked.
Thanks :-)
Kind regards.


>>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
>>    
>>
>
>  
>


-- 
Luke


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