Re: Aliases no longer defined?

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Peter Davis wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 14:59:17 -0500 (EST) Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Peter Davis wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:46:34 -0500 (EST) Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu> wrote:
> >
> > > > [snip]
> > > > Peter,
> > > >
> > > > Could you please attach your .bashrc (if you did and I missed it,
> > > > I apologize).  Also, please attach the output of "cygcheck -svr".
> > > > Please do not paste either in-line, as there may be special
> > > > characters that matter.
> >
> > > I'm trying this again, as last time the list bounced it as suspected
> > > spam.
> >
> > > set rmnx='rmm;next'
> > > export rmnx
> > > set rmpr='rmm;prev'
> > > export rmpr
> > > set pinc='perl ~/pinc.pl'
> > > export pinc
> > > set reshow='more `mhpath cur`'
> > > export reshow
> > > set wshow='cat `mhpath cur` | ~/showhtml.pl | ~/shellex.sh'
> > > export wshow
> > > set bshow='~/demime.pl `mhpath cur` | ~/shellex.sh'
> > > export bshow
> > > set kfilt='pick -search euc-kr -or -search ks_c_5601-1987 -seq
> > > korean' export kfilt
> > > set stunnel='/cygdrive/c/stunnel/stunnel-3.22 -c -d pop3 -r
> > > mail.attbi.com:995&' export stunnel
> > > set html2ps='/cygdrive/c/html2ps/html2ps'
> > > export html2ps
> > > set NNTPSERVER=news.bitstream.com
> > > export NNTPSERVER
> > > set
> > > xemacs='c:/PROGRA~1/XEmacs/XEmacs-21.4.10/i586-pc-win32/xemacs.exe&'
> > > export xemacs set xterm='rxvt -g 80x56-70+0 -backspacekey ^H -fn
> > > 9x15 -fb 9x15bold &' export xterm
> > > set xmutt='rxvt -g 80x56-75+0 -backspacekey ^H -fn 9x15 -fb 9x15bold
> > > -e mutt &' export xmutt
> >
> > Peter,
> >
> > First off, I don't see any alias definitions in the above file.
> > Secondly,"set A=B" is *not* bash syntax, it's cmd.exe syntax.  This
> > will not work in bash.  Thirdly, even if it did, you'd need to use
> > "$xemacs" instead of"xemacs", for example, to invoke it.
>
> Well, the main things I want to do are:
>
> 1) Run stunnel just by typing 'stunnel'
>
> 2) Run mutt
>
> 3) Add /usr/local/nmh/bin to my path, so I can run the nmh programs, and
>
> 4) Add /usr/local/nmh/man to my manpath, so I can get at the man pages.
>
> Of these, the only thing I can do now is #2, but all of this used to
> work on my previous system.
>
> > Since I'm picking on xemacs, I'll use that as an example.  Try either
> > 	alias xemacs='c:/PROGRA~1/XEmacs/XEmacs-21.4.10/i586-pc-win32/xemacs.exe&'
> > Or
> > 	xemacs() { 'c:/PROGRA~1/XEmacs/XEmacs-21.4.10/i586-pc-win32/xemacs.exe'& }
> > 	export xemacs
>
> This is a remnant of when I had the cygwin version of XEmacs installed.
> I did this purely to run MH-E.  I may do this again, but it's not an
> issue for now.
>
> > Either should work.  Depending on your bash settings, you may not need
> > the"export" above.  For details, "man bash"/"info bash".
>
> As I mentioned, I'm not a bash expert.  I just need to do those few
> basic things.  At some point, I'll figure out why tcsh takes forever to
> start on my system, and then I'll use that.
>
> Thanks!
> -pd

Peter,

Note how I took your own value, and simply used the correct bash commands
to associate it with an alias/shell function.  I'll give another example,
perhaps the pattern will become clear:

Change
	set stunnel='/cygdrive/c/stunnel/stunnel-3.22 -c -d pop3 -r mail.attbi.com:995&'
	export stunnel
into either
	alias stunnel='/cygdrive/c/stunnel/stunnel-3.22 -c -d pop3 -r mail.attbi.com:995&'
or
	stunnel () { /cygdrive/c/stunnel/stunnel-3.22 -c -d pop3 -r mail.attbi.com:995 & }
	export stunnel

Does the above make it clearer?
	Igor
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