Microsoft joined hands with Canonical (A Ubuntu parent company) to make Windows more user-friendly. It has a lot of perks as a developer and can access a whole range of Ubuntu command-line tools and utilities with Windows.It might look like a small change by Microsoft, but it’s a huge leap in making Windows more user-friendly (as mentioned) for the open-source community. With a great ability to install Ubuntu Bash on Windows 10, it helps in saving a lot of man-hours and efforts to make the work of people working on open source much easier.
Bash is a command-line interpreter that is used by different flavors of Linux. It acts as an interface to the operating system. If you have used Ubuntu earlier, you might have sound knowledge on how Bash works. The name Bash is elaborated as Bourne-Again Shell.
As some know, the Windows operating system has a PowerShell that itself is a command line, allowing the system administrators to perform different administrative tasks. Having the Bash shell integrated within Windows removes the extra work the developers have to keep track of to use the same programming languages on Windows.
Let’s have a look at how we can install Ubuntu Bash on Windows 10 and take full advantage of the feature.
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName VirtualMachinePlatform -norestart dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all
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