Can we have a moratorium on the term "newbie" please? Please just ask your questions.
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 08:15:28PM -0500, Mike Rushton wrote: >Can some one give me some hints about this ? > >I read the documentation and can't figure this out. > >I am trying to put an alias in a .bashrc > >alias clear='printf "\033c"' > >But what .bashrc do I put this in ? in /ect/skel or the one my user >directory. I put this code in and it seems to get overwritten. >I don't understand what I am doing wrong. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+is+%2Fetc%2Fskel%3F >It is a minor thing that i can't clear the screen, but i want to work at >this and try to fix this. > > >Then I want to add a script to my profile. but what one the .profile >or .bash_profile ? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+is+.bashrc >Other that these problems, I am converting my Korn shell scripts to bash >under Cygwin and it is going pretty good so far. These are all basic bash questions. While I'm sure some kind soul will help you further and we'll likely have a long thread discussing startup files, you really should be investigating existing resources on the web for bash. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
