BASH ON UBUNTU ON WINDOWS
Overview Bash on Windows provides developers with a familiar Bash shell and Linux environment in which you can run most Linux command-line tools, directly on Windows, UNMODIFIED , without needing an entire Linux virtual machine! Bash/WSL allows you to: Run common command-line utilities such as grep , sed , awk , etc. Use the Linux-compatible filesystem & heirarchy and access fixed Windows storage mounted under /mnt/... . Run Bash shell scripts and Linux command-line apps. including Tools: vim, emacs, tmux. Languages: Javascript/node.js, Ruby, Python, C/C++, C# & F#, Rust, Go, etc. Services: sshd, MySQL, Apache, lighttpd,. Install additional Linux tools using apt . Invoke Windows applications from within Bash. Invoke Linux applications from within Windows!. Bash on Windows runs Ubuntu user-mode binaries provided by Canonical. This means the command-line utilities are the same as those that run within a native Ubuntu environment. Installation Guide