From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1010 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2011 06:50:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 998 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Aug 2011 06:50:22 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FROM_LOCAL_NOVOWEL,HK_RANDOM_FROM,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lo.gmane.org (HELO lo.gmane.org) (80.91.229.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:50:06 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QnmKD-00022x-9r for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:50:05 +0200 Received: from 81-188-7-152.sdsl.easynet.be ([81.188.7.152]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:50:05 +0200 Received: from wxhgmqzgwmuf by 81-188-7-152.sdsl.easynet.be with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:50:05 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Sebastien Vauban" Subject: Re: Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:50:00 -0000 Message-ID: <80ei15lj87.fsf@somewhere.org> References: <80hb65b3ue.fsf@somewhere.org> <20110729201651.GB13084@calimero.vinschen.de> <1686210011.20110730161401@mtu-net.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Url: Under construction... X-Archive: encrypt User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (windows-nt) X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00004.txt.bz2 Hi Andrey, Andrey Repin wrote: >>> 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 &' > > Moreover, the very first line is wrong. > > Must be > > alias vpnup='exec sudo openvpn --config $HOME/config/client.vpn --writepid /tmp/openvpn.pid &' > > that's where his problem began, IMO. That's interesting. I thought this was completely equivalent (~ or $HOME), and preferred the shorter version. But you say it's not. Can you comment on this? Thanks in advance... Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban -- 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