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Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 09:28:20 +0200
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Subject: Re: Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux
From: Csaba Raduly <rcsaba AT gmail DOT com>
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On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Sebastien Vauban  wrote:
>
> Hi Andrey,
>
> Andrey Repin wrote:
> >>> For every shell code that I write, I'd like it to be portable both to
> >>> Cygwin on Windows, and to Ubuntu Linux for example.
> >>>
> >>> It's kinda possible, but am blocked with such a use case:
> >>>
> >>> 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 &'
> >
> > Moreover, the very first line is wrong.
> >
> > Must be
> >
> > alias vpnup='exec sudo openvpn --config $HOME/config/client.vpn --writepid /tmp/openvpn.pid &'
> >
> > that's where his problem began, IMO.
>
> That's interesting. I thought this was completely equivalent (~ or $HOME), and
> preferred the shorter version.
>
> But you say it's not. Can you comment on this?  Thanks in advance...
>

bash.info   Tilde expansion:
"If a word begins with an unquoted tilde character (`~'), all of the
characters up to the first unquoted slash (or all characters, if there
is no unquoted slash) are considered a TILDE-PREFIX."

Note "word begins". I've been bitten by this in a makefile:

OPENSSL_DIR := ~/lib/openssl
CPPFLAGS := -I$(OPENSSL_DIR)

The gcc command line then contained -I~/lib/openssl, and the ~ was not
expanded by the shell. ${HOME}/lib/openssl would have worked.

If you want the same alias to work on Cygwin and Linux, you should set
up your $HOME on Cygwin to contain config/client.vpn
You can set your home in /etc/passwd and point it to /cygdrive/c/home
(this may have been mentioned already).
The idea is to always refer to the VPN config as
${HOME}/config/client.vpn and ensure that Cygwin can access it that
way.

Hope this helps,
Csaba
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