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

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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Summary

In this chapter, you have seen the ways in which WSL allows us to interop with Linux distros from Windows, starting with accessing the Linux file system via the \\wsl$\... path. You also saw how to call Linux applications from Windows and that you can chain Windows and Linux commands together by piping output between them, just as you would normally in either system. Finally, you saw that WSL forwards localhost requests to web servers running inside WSL distros. This allows you to easily develop and run web applications in WSL and test them from the browser in Windows.

Being able to access the file systems for your WSL distros and execute commands in them from Windows really helps to bring the two systems together, and it helps you pick your preferred tools for the tasks you are working on, regardless of which operating system they are in. In the next chapter, we will explore the capabilities for interacting with Windows from inside a WSL distro.