From: t.f.heen@jus.uio.no (Tollef Fog Heen) Subject: Re: alias retention 4 May 1998 18:35:29 -0700 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980504121055.00a16100.cygnus.gnu-win32@jusit.uio.no> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Mark A." Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com At 20:48 02.05.98 -0400, you wrote: >Is it possible to get aliases to be retained by the bash shell at startup? >I read the 'set -i ?' command makes the bashshell interactive allowing >bash to read a .bashrc file (that I would like to put aliases, etc. >However either I'm not issuing the -i command in the correct syntax or >something as bash doesn't seem to be getting any info from the .bashrc >file. In any case my aliases are lost after each session. Can anybody >help? Your .bashrc is read from your home directory specified by $HOME . It uses c:\ if home is not set. So you need to set home, or move your .bashrc to c:\. (Isn't this question in the faq yet?) Tollef Fog Heen - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".