Re: [GTALUG] Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

2017-01-03 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 09:00:54PM -0500, William Park via talk wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 07:35:53PM -0500, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > > On 16-12-23 07:05 PM, William Park via talk wrote: > > > I just tried "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" (yes, it's real title). With > > > this, there are

Re: [GTALUG] Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

2016-12-24 Thread Alex Beamish via talk
I enjoyed using git-bash (https://git-for-windows.github.io/) -- it allowed me to use bash, Perl and git on a Windows 7 laptop at my last contract. Far better than the provided configuration of Windows Power (sic) Shell and the mammoth IDE Eclipse. On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 7:05 PM, William Park

Re: [GTALUG] Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

2016-12-23 Thread William Park via talk
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 07:35:53PM -0500, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > On 16-12-23 07:05 PM, William Park via talk wrote: > > I just tried "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" (yes, it's real title). With > > this, there are now 4 ways of running Unix tools on Windows. > > 5 ways if you include MSYS.

[GTALUG] Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

2016-12-23 Thread William Park via talk
Hi all, I just tried "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" (yes, it's real title). With this, there are now 4 ways of running Unix tools on Windows. 1. busybox -- single binary running on Windows. 2. Cygwin -- you download and install bunch of programs, like bash, bc, awk, sed, etc, that