Defining aliases in Cygwin under Windows

Question

I am trying to define some aliases in cygwin, but with no success. I am doing so like this at the end of the .bashrc file.

alias foo=\'pwd\'


        

Answer 1

I had the same issue, where the aliases added to ~/.bashrc didn't work. It seems that, for some reason, the ~/.bashrc was not executed when launching the console.

I stumbled upon a response that fixes the issues

So, you need to create a .bash_profile file. This one seems to be the default script, and put this code in it, to ensure that the .bashrc is executed.

# ~/.bash_profile: executed by bash for login shells.

if [ -e /etc/bash.bashrc ] ; then
 source /etc/bash.bashrc
fi

if [ -e ~/.bashrc ] ; then
 source ~/.bashrc
fi

That works for me, just make sure that .bash_profile is executable. (chmod +x ~/.bash_profile)

Answer 2

I had the same problem, but I was using ConEmu to run my console. I had to go into settings and change the settings from this :

set CHERE_INVOKING=1 & %ConEmuDrive%\Programs\Cygwin\bin\sh.exe --login -i -new_console:C:"%ConEmuDrive%\Programs\Cygwin\Cygwin.ico"

to this:

set HOME= & set CHERE_INVOKING=1 & %ConEmuDrive%\Programs\Cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -i -new_console:C:"%ConEmuDrive%\Programs\Cygwin\Cygwin.ico"

Then it would work correctly.