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Re: .profile and xterm

From: S. L. <s_i_lao at gmx dot net>
To: lingfengz at yahoo dot com
Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:24:52 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Re: .profile and xterm
References: <20030314025219.30478.qmail@web14208.mail.yahoo.com>

> Just starting to play with cygwin.  I edited my
> .profile to do some nice aliases, setting PATH and
> bashprompt...
> but I realize that as soon as I start a terminal using
> xterm (I am using exceed as my Xserver, but shouldn't
> matter) all the alias are gone (such as ls=ls
> --color=auto, which is handy...), and I need to
> deliberately source .profile again...any fix???
[...]

Two. Either use " -ls " option to your xterm, or use " -e bash --login ".

SLao

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