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Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800562448

Length 246 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Linux

Concepts

Shell Scripting

Author (1):

Stuart Leeks

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction, Installation, and Configuration

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Windows Subsystem for Linux FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring the Windows Subsystem for Linux

4. Chapter 3: Getting Started with Windows Terminal

5. Section 2:Windows and Linux – A Winning Combination

6. Chapter 4: Windows to Linux Interoperability

7. Chapter 5: Linux to Windows Interoperability

8. Chapter 6: Getting More from Windows Terminal

9. Chapter 7: Working with Containers in WSL

10. Chapter 8: Working with WSL Distros

11. Section 3: Developing with the Windows Subsystem for Linux

12. Chapter 9: Visual Studio Code and WSL

13. Chapter 10: Visual Studio Code and Containers

14. Chapter 11: Productivity Tips with Command-Line Tools

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Exporting and importing a WSL distro

If you have invested time in setting up a WSL distro, you may wish to be able to copy it to another machine. This could be because you are replacing or reinstalling your machine, or maybe you have multiple machines and want to copy a configured distro to a second machine rather than setting up the distro from scratch. In this section, we will look at how to export a distro to an archive file that can be copied to another machine and imported.

Let's start by preparing the distro for exporting.

Preparing for exporting

Before we export a distro, we want to make sure that the default user for the distro is set in the /etc/wsl.conf file inside the distro (you can read more about wsl.conf in Chapter 2, Installing and Configuring the Windows Subsystem for Linux, in the Introducing wsl.conf and .wslconfig section). By doing this, we can ensure that WSL still uses the correct default user for our distro after we have imported it later.

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