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V.Vidyasagar
V.Vidyasagar

Reputation: 713

Unable to successfully execute some commands in Cygwin

I installed Cygwin64 in my 64-bit Windows 7 machine. The following commands failed executing, however, by displaying the error messages below. Could you help providing a resolution please?

$ ll
-bash: ll: command not found

$ clear
-bash: clear: command not found

However, the command ls -l worked...

$ ls -l
total 0

Also i tried by un-commenting the following line in .bashrc file in my home dir -

# alias ll='ls -l'

But it didn't help either!

Upvotes: 6

Views: 3324

Answers (1)

SzG
SzG

Reputation: 12619

After you uncomment the alias, you should start a new Cygwin shell for it to take effect. The .bashrc file is actually a script that is sourced when bash starts.

clear is not a Cygwin (Unix) command. Just use Ctrl-L instead.

Upvotes: 7

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