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Re:Bash on Ubuntu on Windows by sz4kerto on Thursday April 07, 2016 @03:21AM (#11445365)
My potential use case: run the IDE on the host (Windows UI is fast, font rendering is great), but use git, etc. from the Linux command line (to get file permissions, etc. right).
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Re:Bash on Ubuntu on Windows by tdicola on Thursday April 07, 2016 @03:29AM (#11445395)
Install git (the real git from https://git-scm.com/, not a fancy GUI) and use the git bash shell today. It runs msys and has a full set of Linux utilities like ls, etc.
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Re:Bash on Ubuntu on Windows by zbjornson on Thursday April 07, 2016 @10:45AM (#11447639)
The powershell extensions in Git Shell (not git bash) are also fantastic and less clunky (doesn't feel like mingw). Comes bundled with github for Windows.
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Re:Bash on Ubuntu on Windows by tracker1 on Thursday April 07, 2016 @03:25AM (#11445381)
I've been doing that for a while, I setup Samba in the VM, and map a drive in the windows host... Works pretty well.
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