You're reading from Windows Terminal Tips, Tricks, and Productivity Hacks Optimize your command-line usage and development processes with pro-level techniques

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800207561

Length 254 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Windows Terminal

Concepts

Web Utilities

Author (1):

Will Fuqua

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introducing the New Windows Terminal

2. Chapter 1: Getting started with the new Windows Terminal FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Learning the Windows Terminal UI

4. Chapter 3: Configuring an Ubuntu Linux profile

5. Section 2: Configuring your Windows Terminal and its shells

6. Chapter 4: Customizing your Windows Terminal settings

7. Chapter 5: Changing your Windows Terminal appearance

8. Chapter 6: Setting up keyboard shortcuts

9. Chapter 7: Hidden Windows Terminal Actions

10. Chapter 8: Tips for using PowerShell like a Pro

11. Chapter 9: Tips for Using Ubuntu like an Expert

12. Section 3: Using your Windows Terminal for development

13. Chapter 10: Using Git and GitHub with Windows Terminal

14. Chapter 11: Building web applications with React

15. Chapter 12: Building REST APIs with C# and Windows Terminal

16. Chapter 13: Connecting to remote systems

17. Chapter 14: Managing systems in the cloud

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix Windows Terminal Actions

Connecting to Linux machines

To connect to Linux machines, it's exactly the same! We can use our SSH client to remotely connect, SCP to copy files, and sshd_config to configure the service's behavior. This is a major benefit of SSH and SCP; a single command works on both Linux and Windows.

The SSH server will need to be installed and running, and this is set up by default on most Linux servers. If it's not already set up, we can install the SSH package from our software repositories. On Ubuntu, that'd be done via the following command:

sudo apt install openssh-server

Finally, we need to ensure that our public key is in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file, just like we did on Windows.

Now that we can connect to both Windows and Linux, let's see how we can connect more efficiently, and avoid needing to memorize usernames and hostnames.