Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux
Sebastien Vauban
wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com
Mon Aug 1 06:50:00 GMT 2011
Hi Andrey,
Andrey Repin wrote:
>>> 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.
That's interesting. I thought this was completely equivalent (~ or $HOME), and
preferred the shorter version.
But you say it's not. Can you comment on this? Thanks in advance...
Best regards,
Seb
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