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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by tootie on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:23AM (#15906174)
Git Bash is based on msys/mingw which have been around a while. I think both mingw and cygwin will both be deprecated in favor Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by tavert on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @01:07PM (#15907876)
Highly unlikely. You'd only deprecate them if they serve the exact same purpose, but they don't. Many users will switch, but not those who want a posix runtime environment for a win32 executable that can run on machines that don't have WSL installed (cygwin, and the fork msys2 which git-bash is based on); or to use the gcc compilers to target win32 executables that use the windows native (non-posix) runtime - mingw. Do you know that you can use gcc to build windows executables and dlls from Linux, Mac, or WSL? That's mingw and it's not going away.
Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by srcmap on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @11:00AM (#15906514)
I have bash scripts within cygwin that control Windows firewall via netsh interface.

I still can't run those command under Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by tootie on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @01:57PM (#15908334)
Wouldn't that be much easier to do with PowerShell? I haven't ever attempted, but I'm assuming...
Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by srcmap on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @02:23PM (#15908599)
I use mac, windows, linux, embedded linux all the time. bash/python are just native languages for me.

The powershell's syntax is just too esoteric for me. I did tried that a few times.