Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere To: anoop@alumni.duke.edu, cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 00:55:16 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: using aliases for cygwin commands on win2k Reply-to: gp@familiehaase.de Message-ID: <3BA69B74.21013.2563D161@localhost> In-reply-to: <20010917223753.730.qmail@web11104.mail.yahoo.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12cDE) X-Hops: 1 X-Sender: 320081107336-0001@t-dialin.net 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 -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/