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Re: using aliases for cygwin commands on win2k
- To: anoop at alumni dot duke dot edu, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: using aliases for cygwin commands on win2k
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 00:55:16 +0200
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- Reply-to: gp at familiehaase dot de
Anoop Ghanwani schrieb am 2001-09-17, 15:37:
>I wanted to find out how to use aliases for cygwin commands
>on win2k. The cygwin commands are located at c:\cygwin\bin.
>I don't run bash, but I still use commands such as ls, grep, rm, mv.
>I would like to create aliases for these commands such as
>alias ls 'ls -lF' and so on. How do I do something like this?
>
>Thanks in advance for any help.
If you would run bash, you may put them in your ~/.bashrc
alias ll='ls -l'
and so on.
But since you are not running bash...
Maybe you write little wrapper scripts, but i would recommend to run
the shell with bash. I don't know how to alias on native windows shell.
Gerrit
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