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Re: Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux
- From: "Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf at spammotel dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:40:52 +0200
- Subject: Re: Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux
- References: <80hb65b3ue.fsf@somewhere.org> <4E330E40.6080606@cs.umass.edu>
Hi Eliot,
Eliot Moss wrote:
> Another way to be portable is to have per-system files to set up some
> environment variables and then uniform portable files that use them. You can
> do that same thing *within* a file by writing conditionals or a case on the
> result of uname. It's probably best to segregate per-system stuff in a
> well-contained file or section of a file in this way ...
Thanks for your answer. But the whole idea is to write something in a way that
it must not be rewritten for the other system.
Maybe it's just a dream.
Best regards,
Seb
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