Hi Corinna, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 1 08:46, Sebastien Vauban wrote: >> 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:?
It's not. Simply, both did not work in a portable way. > 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(**). I'm not. I don't know why but, when I installed Perl (months ago), I did not think at looking in Cygwin packages. Seems I'm bad! 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
