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Re: Newbie Alias and Profile questions
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Mike Rushton <mrushton at ptd dot net>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:54:30 +0400
- Subject: Re: Newbie Alias and Profile questions
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- Reply-to: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Greetings, Mike Rushton!
Please don't http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU
> OK, I got it working ... I have my home in an directory other that what
> Cygwin defaults because other software run needs
> I thought my files were being overwritten ... but no - I was modifying
> the wrong files.
> After I found the correct files and modified the .bash_profile
> everything was fine.
> I was not aware of this .bash_profile and I was not aware of the source
> command. On the versions of Unix/Linux that I have used
> I would always do a .profile to execute the commands in it when I made
> changes.
You've been pointed to the bash man page.
It is all explained there, English on black.
> So again I was making changes and the shell was not aware of the changes.
> Hey, I've been using Cygwin for like 2 weeks ,,,
As has been said already, this is NOT a Cygwin question.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 12.02.2014, <15:52>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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