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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
