X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: Stephan Mueller To: Ryan Stewart , "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:45:47 -0800 Subject: RE: Problem with aliases in bash as login shell Message-ID: <2A9FABB3664AF8459CBADA1CE4E4024644A3667B91@DF-MASTIFF-MSG.exchange.corp.microsoft.com> References: <574BF80562AF37419EA4B003C90D756D06E28550 AT EXCHANGE1 DOT belgium DOT fhm DOT de> <20081121151308 DOT GA23561 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id mALFmK03001179 Ryan Stewart wrote: " A nearly 4900 line man page is not exactly "direct". That was the " first place I looked. It was also the last place I looked, but even " knowing more or less what I was looking for, I couldn't find it. Can " you point me to a line number in the man page? The '.' command is a synonym for the 'source' command. Searching for source in the bash man page will turn up use of this word in numerous contexts, but will find the one you want after not too many false positives. stephan(); -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/