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Re: Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux
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.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 30.07.2011, <16:11>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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