On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 10:04:43PM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >* Eliot Moss (Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:40:44 -0400) >> On 8/2/2011 8:24 AM, Sebastien Vauban wrote: >> > Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> >> * Sebastien Vauban (Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:46:52 +0200) >> >>> My goal is to have just 1 alias that would work both under Win32 >> >>> (Cygwin) and Ubuntu >> >> >> >> Why don't have simply put your alias definitions in if [[ $OSTYPE = >> >> cygwin ]]; then else"? >> > >> > Because I really want one single definition which could work on >> > every system I'm using. >[...] >> The suggestion to use a few conditionals that look at the which OS >> you're on does not involve continued tweaking. Once you have the right >> file, it works everywhere (for which you have provided suitable cases) >> using the exact same file. It's just that different parts get executed >> on different platforms. It's not as elegant as achieving an >> arrangement with no conditionals, but it's practical and flexible. > >Couldn't have said it better. Cygwin is not Linux and you just can't >ignore the differences. For example I have different aliases for netstat >and ps on Linux and on Windows. They just don't have the same options.
ps does, if you "alias ps=procps". cgf -- 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
