Windows Command Line
Windows Terminal, Console and Command Line, Windows Subsystem for Linux, WSL, Windows Package Manager
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Copy and Paste arrives for Linux/WSL Consoles
As of Windows 10 Insider build #17643, you can copy/paste text from/to Linux/WSL Consoles!!! We know that this is a feature MANY of you have been waiting for...
Open Sourcing a WSL Sample for Linux Distribution Maintainers and Sideloading Custom Linux Distributions
We are happy to announce that we have open sourced a WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) sample  for Linux distribution maintainers. This sample allows distro ...
What’s new for the Command Line in Windows 10 version 1803
The next Windows 10 update includes many new features for Command Line developers. In this post we'll review WSL, Hyper-V, new tools, and UWP Console ...
Debian GNU/Linux for WSL now available in the Windows Store
We’re excited to announce that you can now download & install Debian GNU/Linux via the Windows Store! After we announced that you’d be able to install ...
Kali Linux for WSL now available in the Windows Store
We’re excited to announce that you can now download & install Kali Linux via the Windows Store! Our community expressed great interest in bringing Kali ...
Per-directory case sensitivity and WSL
If you have used the Windows Subsystem for Linux, you’re probably aware that it allows you to treat your Windows file systems (mounted under /mnt/c, /mnt/d, ...
Automatically Configuring WSL
Beginning with Insider Build 17093, we added a method for you to automatically configure certain functionality in WSL that will be applied every time you launch...
Windows/WSL Interop with AF_UNIX
Starting in Windows Insider build 17093, a WSL application can communicate with a Windows application over Unix sockets. Back in December, we blogged about ...
OpenSSH in Windows 10!
SSH is one of the most important tools in the *NIX world, through which users communicate with shells, applications, and services running on remote machines, ...