Thread: Windows 10 Bash

Typed in "dir"

Typed in "ls"

Same output

/wept



Getting it running in the command line will be nice to use outside of powershell. Hopefully soonish I can ditch cygwin.

Also directly installing VIM, I think.

Wait, are you excited about "ls"? That's been available in Powershell for a while. I thought you meant they pushed the Ubuntu thing out from beta.

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Not "ls" specifically - I suppose it has been around a while. I've used Cygwin for everything command line that I've done on my work machine that has needed a nix command line. Is the bash on Ubuntu on Win10 stuff officially out of beta yet? There's a handful of steps needed to get it all running in the windows terminal if I'm not mistaken.

At my work we have some production redhat servers, a redhat dev server, and some embedded linux boxes with debian so I can usually remote into one of them if I need something, but for my schoolwork and some other small stuff Cygwin has been enough. Hopefully I can ditch that soon though

Nah, you've got to do the preview build and then go into the beta for the Ubuntu features.

I wonder exactly how something that normally needs root will work. Will running as an administrator do the trick? I almost can't wait to find out, but I'm too keen on using a beta OS right now.

Originally Posted by DJ Mr. White

Nah, you've got to do the preview build and then go into the beta for the Ubuntu features.

I wonder exactly how something that normally needs root will work. Will running as an administrator do the trick? I almost can't wait to find out, but I'm too keen on using a beta OS right now.

And with good reason, I've been having flash issues with this build, and now websites are slower on everything. Aside from that though, it's not a bad build.

Originally Posted by DJ Mr. White

Also directly installing VIM, I think.

I used pico recently. Wish I knew about it before now. I didn't need to go lookup any commands.

Pico is cool, though enough years having to deal with vim has actually made me learn it fairly well.

My ultimate goal with VIM is to be as adept as the professor I did research under. I saw him do magic.