Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Jul 29 20:17:00 GMT 2011
On Jul 29 15:42, Sebastien Vauban wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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 &'
Corinna
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