Windows 10, we've been talking to a lot of you about what you would like to see in Windows to make it a great place for you to build awesome apps, sites and services for all platforms and all devices.First we made investments that improve cmd, PowerShell, and many other command-line tools and developer scenarios. Second we decided to grow our command line family by adding real, native Bash and with it support for Linux command-line tools which run directly on Windows in an environment that behaves like Linux!Run Bash on Windows Users just have to follow these simple steps to run Bash on Windows 10 OS:
1)Open the Windows Start menu
2)Type "bash"
3) Hit 'Enter'This is not Microsoft Linux for Windows win-bash is a Windows port of the famous GNU bash (see GNU Bash homepage).Unlike other bash ports for Windows (e.g. the cygwin bash ), the win-bash needs no special environment or DLLs. There is just one binary and that's it.win-bash is based on nt_bash which was an early bash port for Windows NT started by Mountain Math Software some years ago. As far as I know, the nt_bash port project stopped in alpha status and has never been finished.The goal of the win-bash project is to finish the port to Windows and provide a fully-functional bash.exe binary for Windows NT and derived systems. win-bash can be used as an input shell, as well as an interpreter to run UN*X shell scripts.This is not Microsoft Linux for WindowsBest way to run Linux on windows is through Virtual Machine.It's native Ubuntu binaries running directly in Windows. "Hum, well it's like cygwin perhaps?" Nope! Cygwin includes open source utilities are recompiled from source to run natively in Windows. Here, we're talking about bit-for-bit, checksum-for-checksum Ubuntu ELF binaries running directly in Windows.Category: Learntags: bash on windowswindows 10linux bashgitbash
