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Re: Newbie Alias and Profile questions
- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 20:26:28 -0500
- Subject: Re: Newbie Alias and Profile questions
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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.
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Larry
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