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 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.