By default, Windows Terminal comes with PowerShell and Command Prompt tabs. If you want to, you can add any number of other consols to the Windows Terminal. For example, if you are a web developer and need to add a Linux console to Windows Terminal. You can do that by adding a few ...
Recently when doing a demo, someone asked, “how in the heck did you get your terminal to look like that?” It’s not the first time I’ve heard this, so I’ll share some of the ways I customize my WSL terminal. Where to Get WSL and Windows Terminal To do these customizations, y...
To open a file using CMD within Windows Terminal, you first need to navigate to the directory where the file resides using thecdcommand. Once there, thestartcommand, followed by the file name, will open the file with its default application. In the case of PowerShell, navigating to the f...
I'm using the new Windows Terminal, and trying to get it to launch my WSL terminal. This is the setting that I'm trying to use: { "acrylicOpacity" : 0.75, "closeOnExit" : true, "colorScheme" : "Campbell", "commandline" : "%LOCALAPPDATA%/wsltty/bin/mintty.exe --WSL= --confi...
The Microsoft Windows Terminal is a new, modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL. Its main features include multiple tabs, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated tex...
wsl Both will display as a "Run command" that can be selected to instantly open Bash shell. The difference with using either of these methods is that they open in the/mnt/c/Windows/System32directory. This means you can browse the System32 subdirectory in Windows 10. ...
or those using WSL as downloaded from the Microsoft Store will have it. If you’re using Ubuntu Preview on WSL, systemd is being added automatically. So, to check if you have the supported version of WSL, simply open Windows Terminal, and in the PowerShell console, run the following comma...
I don't want access to the WSL1/2 distribution other than deleting it from Windows 10/11. (For example, changing the root account password of the distribution, accessing the distribution directory, etc.) For these, are the 3 methods belo...
Mike's Powershell profile: how to set up a terminal in Windows if you've been using *nix for 20 years Heya. I've been using bash for about two decades before getting into Powershell. I'm a *nix person. I've worked at both Red Hat in the early days, IBM's dedicated Linux team...
Type az version in a terminal window to know what version of the Azure CLI is installed. Your output looks like this: Output Copy { "azure-cli": "x.xx.0x", "azure-cli-core": "x.xx.x", "azure-cli-telemetry": "x.x.x", "extensions": {} } What extensions are installed? Us...