Chapter 4: Windows to Linux Interoperability
In Chapter 1, Introduction to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, we compared the WSL experience to running Linux in a virtual machine; where virtual machines are focused around isolation, WSL has strong interoperability built in between Windows and Linux. In this chapter, you will start to be introduced to these capabilities, starting with interacting with files and applications running under WSL and files from the Windows host environment. This will include looking at how to pipe output between scripts running in Windows and WSL. After this, we will look at how WSL enables web applications in Linux to be accessed from Windows.
In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:
- Accessing Linux files from Windows
- Running Linux applications from Windows
- Accessing Linux web applications from Windows
Let's get started!
