{"id":275,"date":"2016-07-01T12:08:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T20:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/commandline\/?p=275"},"modified":"2019-02-26T11:29:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T19:29:34","slug":"hanselman-takes-a-tour-around-bash-on-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/hanselman-takes-a-tour-around-bash-on-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanselman takes a tour around Bash on Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re anything like me, you&#8217;re already overloaded with work\/studies &amp; life, and there&#8217;s just never enough time to go and dig into all the awesome new open-source projects, cool new tools, exciting new languages &amp; platforms, and any amount of other technology that appears almost hourly these days.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if someone could go kick the tires on new tech so that you can watch\/listen to their experiences so that you can decide which tech you&#8217;d like to explore when you do get a few spare minutes?<\/p>\n<p>Enter <a href=\"http:\/\/hanselman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Hanselman<\/a> who I have been <del>getting into trouble<\/del> working with on the Bash on Windows story since before it was publicly announced, whereupon he was one of the first to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanselman.com\/blog\/DevelopersCanRunBashShellAndUsermodeUbuntuLinuxBinariesOnWindows10.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">announce Bash\u00a0&amp; running native Linux binaries on Windows is coming<\/a>. He has also recently explained <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanselman.com\/blog\/InstallingFishShellOnUbuntuOnWindows10.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">How to install the Fish shell<\/a>\u00a0for those who are fans of Fish (and who wouldn&#8217;t be?).<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday,\u00a0Scott\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanselman.com\/blog\/VIDEOHowToRunLinuxAndBashOnWindows10AnniversaryUpdate.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">pu<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanselman.com\/blog\/VIDEOHowToRunLinuxAndBashOnWindows10AnniversaryUpdate.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">blished a new video<\/a> walking through the process of installing and running Bash on Windows, exploring some of the new features of Windows Console, installing some development tools, etc.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s well worth a watch &#8211; even if you aren&#8217;t currently a Linux user &#8211; understanding where this technology fits into your toolbelt will likely prove to be useful in the future!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanselman.com\/blog\/VIDEOHowToRunLinuxAndBashOnWindows10AnniversaryUpdate.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-285\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2019\/02\/HanselmanDemo1-1280x719.png\" alt=\"Hanselman Demo's Bash on Windows\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks Scott \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Rich [<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/richturn_ms]\" target=\"_blank\">@richturn_ms<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re anything like me, you&#8217;re already overloaded with work\/studies &amp; life, and there&#8217;s just never enough time to go and dig into all the awesome new open-source projects, cool new tools, exciting new languages &amp; platforms, and any amount of other technology that appears almost hourly these days. 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