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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110729201651.GB13084@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80hb65b3ue.fsf@somewhere.org>

On Jul 29 15:42, Sebastien Vauban wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> For every shell code that I write, I'd like it to be portable both to Cygwin
> on Windows, and to Ubuntu Linux for example.
> 
> It's kinda possible, but am blocked with such a use case:
> 
> alias vpnup='exec sudo openvpn --config ~/config/client.vpn --writepid /tmp/openvpn.pid &'
> 
> While this worked perfectly under Ubuntu, I've had to make up a customized
> version for Windows:
> 
> alias vpnupwin='cd c:/home/sva/config; openvpn --config client.vpn --writepid c:/cygwin/tmp/openvpn.pid &'

Don't use Win32 paths.  Use POSIX paths:

  alias vpnupwin='cd /cygdrive/c/home/sva/config; openvpn --config client.vpn --writepid /cygdrive/c/cygwin/tmp/openvpn.pid &'


Corinna

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-29 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-29 19:15 Sebastien Vauban
2011-07-29 19:45 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2011-08-01  6:40   ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-07-29 19:47 ` Eliot Moss
2011-08-01  6:45   ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-07-29 20:17 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2011-07-30 12:20   ` Andrey Repin
2011-08-01  6:50     ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-01  7:28       ` Csaba Raduly
2011-08-02 11:58         ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-02 12:36           ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-05 16:05       ` Andrey Repin
2011-08-08  1:16     ` Sven Köhler
2011-08-08  2:07       ` Eliot Moss
2011-08-08 22:17         ` Gary Johnson
2011-08-08  8:20       ` Andrey Repin
2011-08-08  9:11         ` Sven Köhler
2011-08-08 14:27           ` Eliot Moss
2011-08-01  7:00   ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-01  7:44     ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-08-02 12:11       ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-02 12:23       ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-02 14:37         ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-08-01  9:21     ` Thorsten Kampe
2011-08-02 12:25       ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-02 15:41         ` Eliot Moss
2011-08-02 20:05           ` Thorsten Kampe
2011-08-02 20:45             ` Christopher Faylor
2011-08-03 16:23             ` Andy Hall
2011-08-08  1:20         ` Sven Köhler
2011-08-08 13:41           ` Eric Blake
2011-08-10 12:03             ` Sven Köhler

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