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 -- Sebastien Vauban -- 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
