Bdtyktl

I have my alias file set up like so in Bash in WSL:

alias gvim='/mnt/d/Vim/vim81/gvim.exe'

alias vim='/mnt/d/Vim/vim81/vim.exe'

alias pngcrush='/mnt/c/Users/nathan/Downloads/pngcrush_1_8_11_w64.exe -reduce -brute -ow'

but when I try running gvim or vim within Bash, I get this error:

:No such file or directorym.exe (gvim)

`:No such file or directory.exe' (vim)

However, the pngcrush alias works correctly. For some odd reason though, the aliases defined in my ~/.alias file have the first "a" in alias replaced with single quote and the ending single quote is missing when I run alias command in bash without arguments.

Anyone know why the gvim and vim executables are not being found correctly? If I enter the path to the .exe in bash directly it works but those two aliases don't work

Bash version:

> bash --version

GNU bash, version 4.3.42(1)-release (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu)

Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>



This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.

There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

OpenSUSE version:

> cat /etc/*release

NAME="openSUSE Leap"

VERSION="42.3"

ID=opensuse

ID_LIKE="suse"

VERSION_ID="42.3"

PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Leap 42.3"

ANSI_COLOR="0;32"

CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:leap:42.3"

BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"

HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"

openSUSE 42.3 (x86_64)

VERSION = 42.3

CODENAME = Malachite

# /etc/SuSE-release is deprecated and will be removed in the future, use /etc/os-release instead

All of my bash aliases below:

>alias

alias +='pushd .'

alias -='popd'

alias ..='cd ..'

alias ...='cd ../..'

alias beep='echo -en "07"'

alias cd..='cd ..'

alias dir='ls -l'

alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'

alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'

alias grep='grep --color=auto'

'lias gvim='/mnt/d/Vim/vim81/gvim.exe

alias l='ls -alF'

alias la='ls -la'

alias ll='ls -l'

alias ls='_ls'

alias ls-l='ls -l'

alias md='mkdir -p'

alias o='less'

'lias pngcrush='/mnt/c/Users/nathan/Downloads/pngcrush_1_8_11_w64.exe -reduce -brute -ow

alias rd='rmdir'

alias rehash='hash -r'

alias unmount='echo "Error: Try the command: umount" 1>&2; false'

'lias vim='/mnt/d/Vim/vim81/vim.exe

alias you='if test "$EUID" = 0 ; then /sbin/yast2 online_update ; else su - -c "/sbin/yast2 online_update" ; fi'

Microsoft Windows 10 Home 10.0.17134

Quick answer: just open vim from within bash.

The Linux distribution you are using with WSL probably has vim included. There is no reason to use WSL & bash to open a Windows version of vim.