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Copy and Paste arrives for Linux/WSL Consoles

Rich Turner April 13, 2018 Apr 13, 2018 04/13/18

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 - our sincerest thanks for your patience & continued support while we untangled the Console's internals, allowing us to implement this feature. To ensure that we don't break any ...

OpenSSH in Windows 10!

Rich Turner January 22, 2018 Jan 22, 2018 01/22/18

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, devices, VM's and containers. Windows users most often remotely access Windows machines, devices, VM's and Containers via the amazingly powerful Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) which, as ...

Tar and Curl Come to Windows!

Rich Turner January 18, 2018 Jan 18, 2018 01/18/18

One of the most frequent asks we hear across the entire Windows command-line spectrum is "I need curl" and/or "I need tar". If you're one of these people - HAPPY NEW YEAR! :) Windows 10 Insider build 17063 and later now include the real-deal curl and tar executables that you can execute directly from Cmd or PowerShell. Our sincere thanks ...

Share Environment Vars between WSL and Windows

Craig Wilhite December 22, 2017 Dec 22, 2017 12/22/17

Hey WSL users—we have more features to share with you! Our latest Windows Insider build lets you share environment variables between WSL and Windows. Starting with Build 17063, let’s look at how you can leverage the new “WSLENV” to enhance environmental variable interop between Win32/WSL. Summary For the pros who’ve already heard ...

A Guide to Invoking WSL

Craig Wilhite November 28, 2017 Nov 28, 2017 11/28/17

There are a variety of ways to invoke the Windows Subsystem for Linux from Windows commandlines and they all behave a little differently. Let’s get to the bottom of it. “wsl” The first (and recommended!) method will start up your default distro. Additionally, it starts the distro in the current working directory where you invoke ...

WSL & Console team ch…ch…ch…chaaaaanges!

Rich Turner October 12, 2017 Oct 12, 2017 10/12/17

Dear friends of WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux, nee "Bash on [Ubuntu on] Windows") & Windows Console: I would like to share with you some changes to our org' that will benefit WSL, Windows Console and the Windows command-line in general moving forward. After shipping a major new release, Microsoft often shuffles teams and people ...

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Copy and Paste arrives for Linux/WSL Consoles

OpenSSH in Windows 10!

Tar and Curl Come to Windows!

Share Environment Vars between WSL and Windows

A Guide to Invoking WSL

WSL & Console team ch…ch…ch…chaaaaanges!

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