X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 16:44:53 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux Message-ID: <20110802204453.GA14116@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <80hb65b3ue.fsf@somewhere.org> <20110729201651.GB13084@calimero.vinschen.de> <80ipqhljc3.fsf@somewhere.org> <80hb60m25t.fsf@somewhere.org> <4E381A7C.2000000@cs.umass.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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