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Customize and optimize your Windows Terminal and its shells

Work effectively on the command line with split panes, hotkeys, and automation

Use PowerShell and WSL2 efficiently to build, test, and deploy applications

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Windows Terminal is a new and open-source command-line application for Windows 10, built for the Command Prompt, PowerShell, Windows Subsystem for Linux, and more. It's fast, modern, and configurable thanks to its GPU-accelerated rendering, excellent UTF-8 support, and JSON-based configurability, and this book can help you learn how to leverage these features. You’ll start by learning the benefits of Windows Terminal and its open-source development, as well as how to use the built-in tabs, panes, and key bindings to build your own efficient terminal workflows. After you’ve mastered Windows Terminal, this book shows how to use and configure PowerShell Core and the Windows Subsystem for Linux within Windows Terminal. You’ll maximize your productivity using powerful tools such as PSReadLine for PowerShell and ZSH on Linux, and discover useful tips and tricks for common developer tools like Git and SSH. Finally, you’ll see how Windows Terminal can be used in common development and DevOps tasks, such as developing frontend JavaScript applications and backend REST APIs, and managing cloud-based systems like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. By the end of this book, you'll not only be well-versed with Windows Terminal, but also have learned how to effectively use shells like PowerShell Core and ZSH to become proficient at the command line.

What you will learn

Install, update, and use Windows Terminal and its preview version

Customize your Windows Terminal to be both visually appealing and functional

Enable and effectively use the latest versions of PowerShell Core and Windows Subsystem for Linux

Install and configure time-saving tools for the command line

Work efficiently with common developer tools such as Git and SSH

Build, deploy, and manage apps in the cloud using Windows Terminal

Use Linux tools from Windows with ease

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David Oct 02, 2023

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Nuno "WSL Corsair" do Carmo Jul 05, 2021

Writing a book about an emergent technology or tool it's always a risky as the moment the book is out, the information inside might be already obsolete.To avoid this situation, the author successfully applied a simple yet very intelligent solution: explain how the Terminal integrates with existing, and more long term, development workflows.So in the end, what the book brings, is more than just one technology. We learn about using the different shells available in Windows 10 (Powershell and WSL). We also learn on how to use the Terminal for web development, IT operations such as remote servers connection and even some Cloud providers management (AWS, Azure).I tend to rate the books for they "replay value", and this one has an high value thanks to all the aspects mention above.A great first book on the new Windows Terminal that will definitively help everyone, independent of the knowledge level, to get started or learn a nice trick or two for the veterans.

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Alvin Ashcraft Jul 02, 2021

Will Fuqua's Windows Terminal book is a great guide for a user of any proficiency. Readers who are new to Windows Terminal or terminals in general can start from Chapter 1 and get up to speed from ground zero. I was already familiar with many of the Windows Terminal basics, so I skimmed over some of the early chapters (most of section one).Sections 2 and 3 were more useful for me. I learned so much about customizing and using the Terminal for my day-to-day workflows as a software developer. You'll learn everything you need to know about the Terminal, from customizing its appearance to using it to develop and test web APIs.The chapter on using Windows Terminal with Git and GitHub was my favorite. If you're a lifelong GUI developer, this book will teach you the ins and outs of living at the command-line. Do you work with the cloud? There are chapters on using Windows Terminal to accomplish tasks in Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform.If you're using Windows for anything more than web browsing, you'll find something useful you can do with Windows Terminal in this book Check it out!

Lirp Dec 29, 2021

A must have in your library as reference on the fly.

Thomas F. Lee Aug 08, 2021

I have had the pleasure of reading through this recently published book (https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Windows-Terminal-Tricks-Productivity-Hacks-ebook/dp/B08XK8C5FD/ref=smi_www_rco2_go_smi_4368549507?_encoding=UTF8&%2AVersion%2A=1&%2Aentries%2A=0&ie=UTF8). This is a timely book, full of tips and tricks for using the new Windows Terminal.Ever since Microsoft got into the OS business, we’ve had a console or shell built into the OS. The earliest, command.com, gave way to cmd.exe with NT 3.1. And later came Windows PowerShell, the PowerShell ISE and of course PowerShell 7 with VS Code. And now we have Windows Terminal.As the book clarifies, there really are two components at work when you use tools like PowerShell. The first is the shell, with the second being the terminal. As the book makes clear, the terminal is, essentially, “what you see” when you use a command-line tool. The terminal renders any text, draws any UI, and accepts kb/mouse input. The terminal sends input to the shell for the actual processing. The shell then processes the input and returns the results back to the terminal to display.When you use cmd.exe or PowerShell, conhost.exe is the terminal with the command prompt or Windows Powershell/PowerShell 7 as the shell. The actual shell does not have a UI as such – it gets input from and sends output to the terminal. It is important to separate the two.Conhost.exe is really pretty primitive – it works and does the job but could do so much more. Which is a thought that has led to the development of a new, open-source, cross-platform terminal supporting just about any shell, including the shells in Linux distributions you can run under the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2). The new windows terminal is not just a re-write of conhost.exe, but is so much more!As a PowerShell user, I traditionally used PowerShell via either the command line (i.e. pwsh.exe, cmd.exe, powershell.exe) or most often via VS Code (and some ISE). The tool I chose at any given time reflected what I was about to do. I use a GUI to develop and test scripts. And sometimes to run code. On the other hand, when I only need to run code ( for example, my Get-TodayInHistory.ps1 script (https://github.com/doctordns/GDScripts/blob/main/Get-TodayInHistory.ps1) that helps me pick music to play today), I chose the console as my terminal.The book begins with a look at both what the terminal is and how you install it, followed by a great chapter on the UI. If you are going to be using the new terminal, Chapter 2 has several important key sequences you need to work into your muscle memory.In the second section, the book looks at how you can configure Windows Terminal and the shells you use. The book contains lots of great tips for using the terminal and PowerShell and WSL2 Ubuntu via Windows Terminal.For the hardcore developer, the final section in the book looks at how you can use Windows Terminal in development. The book looks at using GIT and GitHub and building web applications (with React) and REST APIs. The book finishes with a look at connecting to a remote host and managing hosts in the cloud by using Azure Cloud Shell or Google Cloud shell in the Windows Terminal.If you are a casual terminal user, Windows Terminal does everything you used to use consoles for – and a lot more. Windows Terminal is a great tool if you are a WSL2 user, perhaps creating APIs or web apps. For both audiences (and everyone in between), this book provides great guidance, tips/tricks, and best practices.

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