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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

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