From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30532 invoked by alias); 8 Aug 2011 01:16:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 30518 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Aug 2011 01:16:08 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FROM,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL 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, 08 Aug 2011 01:15:47 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QqERV-0003jF-IB for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 03:15:45 +0200 Received: from 31.18.77.91 ([31.18.77.91]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 03:15:45 +0200 Received: from sven.koehler by 31.18.77.91 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 03:15:45 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= Subject: Re: Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 01:16:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <80hb65b3ue.fsf@somewhere.org> <20110729201651.GB13084@calimero.vinschen.de> <1686210011.20110730161401@mtu-net.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110705 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: <1686210011.20110730161401@mtu-net.ru> 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/msg00168.txt.bz2 Am 30.07.2011 14:14, schrieb Andrey Repin: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > >>> 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. I don't know, why you pointed that out. It's of no use to feed a path like $HOME/something to a pure win32 binary. (Certainly, this hint is kind of important for the ubuntu version of the script, but not for the cygwin issue, which is solely because he's mixing cygwin and win32 and expects it work without any complication) -- 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