From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20219 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2011 07:44:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 20086 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Aug 2011 07:44:09 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 07:43:55 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 09AEC2CA2CB; Mon, 1 Aug 2011 09:43:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 07:44:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux Message-ID: <20110801074352.GA14889@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <80hb65b3ue.fsf@somewhere.org> <20110729201651.GB13084@calimero.vinschen.de> <80ipqhljc3.fsf@somewhere.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <80ipqhljc3.fsf@somewhere.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-08/txt/msg00007.txt.bz2 On Aug 1 08:46, Sebastien Vauban wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> 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 &' > > But, if I write it like that, this never will work under Ubuntu, does it? Or > is it possible with some "mount" magic to void the prefix "/cydgrive/c"? How is that different from using a drive letter like C:? The best you can do is to create a mount point(*) under Cygwin which has the same path as under Ubuntu. Then, just use the same POSIX paths on both systems. > My goal is to have just 1 alias that would work both under Win32 (Cygwin) and > Ubuntu, having the files located in the same place (relative to my home dir). > > I also tried you suggestion for another command, which was: > > perl C:/home/sva/src/csv2ledger/CSV2Ledger.pl -f $FileMatches -i $tmpfile.clean > > This works fine under Cygwin right now. > > Rewritten with POSIX paths: > > perl /cygdrive/c/home/sva/src/csv2ledger/CSV2Ledger.pl -f $FileMatches -i $tmpfile.clean > > It does not work anymore... So you're not using Cygwin perl, or you changed your cygdrive prefix(**). Corinna (*) http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table (**) http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#cygdrive -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple