On Aug 1 08:46, Sebastien Vauban wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> 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 &' > > But, if I write it like that, this never will work under Ubuntu, does it? Or > is it possible with some "mount" magic to void the prefix "/cydgrive/c"?
How is that different from using a drive letter like C:? The best you can do is to create a mount point(*) under Cygwin which has the same path as under Ubuntu. Then, just use the same POSIX paths on both systems. > My goal is to have just 1 alias that would work both under Win32 (Cygwin) and > Ubuntu, having the files located in the same place (relative to my home dir). > > I also tried you suggestion for another command, which was: > > perl C:/home/sva/src/csv2ledger/CSV2Ledger.pl -f $FileMatches -i > $tmpfile.clean > > This works fine under Cygwin right now. > > Rewritten with POSIX paths: > > perl /cygdrive/c/home/sva/src/csv2ledger/CSV2Ledger.pl -f $FileMatches -i > $tmpfile.clean > > It does not work anymore... So you're not using Cygwin perl, or you changed your cygdrive prefix(**). Corinna (*) http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table (**) http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#cygdrive -- 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
