{"id":3989,"date":"2017-04-24T20:41:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2017-04-25T13:28:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T18:28:20","slug":"meet-your-new-best-friend-for-wsl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/meet-your-new-best-friend-for-wsl\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet $, your new best friend for WSL"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We’ve raved about Microsoft’s latest take on a Linux subsystem for Windows, this time in the form of the oddly-dubbed “Bash on Ubuntu on Windows” Windows Subsystem for Linux \u2014 herein and forever after referred to only as WSL for the sake of our collective sanity \u2014 but as awesome as being able to type bash<\/code> in a command prompt to get access to holy posix goodiness, we think we can do better. Meet $<\/code>.<\/p>\n

$, formally known as RunInBash<\/code>, is a simple command line helper utility that simply runs whatever follows it under WSL rather than in the current (Windows) terminal. Here’s a picture to illustrate (click to expand):<\/p>\n

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RunInBash is the equivalent of supplying a correctly- and manually-escaped bash.exe -c \"command here\"<\/code> parameter, only it takes care of all the escaping and interpolation for you.<\/p>\n

$ printf \"It's just like \\\"%s\\\"\" magic<\/code><\/p>\n

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RunInBash is, of course, released 100% free under the terms of the MIT license, and is published on GitHub<\/a>. Pull requests are welcomed and feel free to fork away!<\/p>\n

Download RunInBash 0.1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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