Alias to open file on Windows using CygWin - windows

I have a windows machine with CygWin installed on it. I do not hold any admin privileges, so, forget about changing environment variables which apply to all user and etc...
Scenario:
When I execute CygWin and type the following command to execute Maven, it works perfectly:
/cygdrive/c/maven/apache-maven-3.5.0/bin/mvn
However, when I create the file .profile as below:
alias mvn="cygdrive/c/maven/apache-maven-3.5.0/bin/mvn"
After restarting CygWing and executing the command "mvn", the following message is sent: No such file or directory.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

For any of you who may have the same problem, the way I solved this was basically adding a "sh" at the beginning of the command:
elias mvn="sh /cygdrive/c/maven/apache-maven-3.5.0/bin/mvn"
Cheers.

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But, you need to source ROS devel to be able to use roscd, roslaunch, ...
In the code below I added:
source /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash
to source ROS and be able to use it.
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however unfortunately none of the solutions have worked for me in that post or any other. I've also looked at other commands not recognized and specifically adding a path variable. The procedure I am using is as follows:
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However testing the ant installation does not work, the picture below is what I'm experiencing:
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EDIT
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2.Edit User Variable PATH = %ANT_HOME%\bin
Go to System Variables
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Worked for me. (Should be system var)
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It is set in environment variables.I resolved this once as mentioned below.
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I got same problem , what I did for fix :
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Click on environment variable
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Click ok
Open cmd and type : ant -version
thanks, might help someone :)

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