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Re: Aliases no longer defined?


On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 03:52:09PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 
> 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?


D'oh!  This is what this file originally said.  It was all

alias x=y
export x

When this failed to work on my new Cygwin installation, I changed them
all to

export x=y

That still didn't work, so I changed them back ... to "set".  D'oh.
That was my own stupid fault.  Anyway, that wasn't working, but now it
seems to be.  I just did 'source ~/.bashrc' again, and all seems well.

I'll double check this on my home system, where I did *not* tamper
with the .bashrc file.

Thanks for all your help on this.

Can you give me a hint how to add some directories to my PATH and
MANPATH variables in the .bashrc?

Thanks *very* much!

-pd


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