On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Chaikin, Yaakov Y (US SSA) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using WinXP Pro. Created .profile file with the following line:
> .bashrc
It should be ". .bashrc", actually...
> Then, I created .bashrc file with the following line:
> alias cl clear
>
> Restarted cygwin and got the following error message:
> alias: not found
Which shell are you running? Sounds like "sh".
> Am I missing a package that I should download and install? If so, which
> package?
>
> Thanks,
> Yaakov.
It's usually not a good idea to put bash-specific commands in .profile, as
sh also uses it. You can use .bash_profile for bash instead.
Igor
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