Interoperability tips and tricks
In this section, we will look at some tips that you can use to boost your productivity when working between Windows and WSL. We will see how to use aliases to avoid specifying the extension when executing Windows commands to make them feel more natural. We'll also see how to copy text from Linux to the Windows clipboard and how to make Windows folders fit in more naturally in a WSL distro. After that, we'll see how to open files in the default Windows application from Linux. From there, we will look at how Windows applications are able to work with WSL paths when we pass them as parameters, as well as how to take control of mapping paths when the default behavior doesn't work. Finally, we'll look at how to share SSH keys from Windows into WSL distros for easy key maintenance.
Let's get started with aliases.
Creating aliases for Windows applications
As was noted earlier in the chapter, when calling Windows applications...
