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Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

You're reading from   Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) Tips, Tricks, and Techniques Maximise productivity of your Windows 10 development machine with custom workflows and configurations

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562448
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 11: Productivity Tips with Command-Line Tools

In this chapter, we will cover some tips for working with a few different common command-line tools. We'll start by looking at ways to boost your productivity and improve the experience of working with Git in WSL. Git is used widely, and improving your productivity with it gives improvements in any project where you use it for source control. After this, we will look at two Command-Line Interfaces (CLIs): az for Azure and kubectl for Kubernetes. With each of these CLIs, we will deploy a simple example resource and then show some techniques for querying data with them. As is common with many CLIs, both az and kubectl provide an option for getting data in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format, so before looking at these CLIs, we will explore some options for working with JSON data in WSL. Even if you're not using az or kubectl, the techniques covered in these sections may be relevant to other CLIs you are using. By learning...

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