Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux

[Corinna Vinschen]

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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