From: "Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <80sjpkm2t2.fsf@somewhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110801074352.GA14889@calimero.vinschen.de>
Hi Corinna,
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 1 08:46, Sebastien Vauban wrote:
>> 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:?
It's not. Simply, both did not work in a portable way.
> 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(**).
I'm not. I don't know why but, when I installed Perl (months ago), I did not
think at looking in Cygwin packages. Seems I'm bad!
Best regards,
Seb
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-02 12:11 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
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 [this message]
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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