From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23557 invoked by alias); 2 Aug 2011 20:05:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 23543 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Aug 2011 20:05:32 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,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; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 20:05:17 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QoLDB-0000Mh-DQ for cygwin@cygwin.com; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:05:09 +0200 Received: from ip-213-220-207-166.net.upcbroadband.cz ([213.220.207.166]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:05:09 +0200 Received: from thorsten by ip-213-220-207-166.net.upcbroadband.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:05:09 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 20:05:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <80hb65b3ue.fsf@somewhere.org> <20110729201651.GB13084@calimero.vinschen.de> <80ipqhljc3.fsf@somewhere.org> <80hb60m25t.fsf@somewhere.org> <4E381A7C.2000000@cs.umass.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 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/msg00053.txt.bz2 * Eliot Moss (Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:40:44 -0400) > On 8/2/2011 8:24 AM, Sebastien Vauban wrote: > > Thorsten Kampe wrote: > >> * Sebastien Vauban (Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:46:52 +0200) > >>> My goal is to have just 1 alias that would work both under Win32 > >>> (Cygwin) and Ubuntu > >> > >> Why don't have simply put your alias definitions in if [[ $OSTYPE = > >> cygwin ]]; then else"? > > > > Because I really want one single definition which could work on > > every system I'm using. [...] > The suggestion to use a few conditionals that look at the which OS > you're on does not involve continued tweaking. Once you have the right > file, it works everywhere (for which you have provided suitable cases) > using the exact same file. It's just that different parts get executed > on different platforms. It's not as elegant as achieving an > arrangement with no conditionals, but it's practical and flexible. Couldn't have said it better. Cygwin is not Linux and you just can't ignore the differences. For example I have different aliases for netstat and ps on Linux and on Windows. They just don't have the same options. Thorsten -- 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