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Launching Windows apps from WSL2 with foreground process control
I'm using WSL2 on Windows 11 and I'm trying to achieve the following: I want to launch Windows applications from within WSL2 and have the Bash terminal maintain a handle to the new process. ...
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Why executing 'bash' in the terminal opens wsl on Windows 10?
When I run the 'bash' command in the terminal, my console automatically switches to the 'wsl' mode. Why is this happening and how do I stop this behavior? It causes problems when I run other scripts, ...
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WSL run a non-login shell even with `--shell-type login`
Previously running wsl sourced .profile for me, as expected:
As of build 16188 when running bash.exe without arguments (or with the ~ argument) bash will be launched as a login shell. The same is ...
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How do I change the background color for folders in PowerShell when invoking the "ls" command from WSL Interop?
I've installed the WslInterop module and exposed several commands from WSL2.
I'm using Import-WslCommand "apt", "cat", "awk", "nano", "find", "...
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WSL Bash: how do I get a symlink to act like a local folder
I have 2 folders set up:
/
folder/
subfolder/
file.txt
symlink-folder/
subfolder/ -> /folder/subfolder
If I cd /symlink-folder/subfolder then run ls, I see file.txt, as I expect. ...
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Using grep to search for files with a specific extension [duplicate]
I'm trying to recursively look for C Sharp files containing specific text using a bash prompt on Windows Subsystem for Linux.
If I type grep -l -i -r "public virtual List<" /mnt/c/mycode/*...
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Connecting to X server with xming and putty: 'xterm: Xt error: Can't open display' error troubleshooting
I keep getting the
xterm: Xt error: cannot connect to X server:[:0]
error trying to run PGPLOT function. I am running xmings and putty with X11 forwarding enabled.
I have tried echo $DISPLAY and ...
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How to inject powershell computed values into bash command (ran from powershell)?
I'm trying to convert wepb images into png, using dwebp, but the parameters are from powershell:
foreach($ff in $f)
{
bash -c "dwebp $ff.name {$ff.name -replace '(.*).webp','$1.png'}"
}
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Valid Shell Script dosen't run in WSL
I have a simple shell script which runs completly fine on VM but gives me syntex error in WSL.
insert(){
read -p "Enter Name: " name
read -p "Enter Phone Number: " ...
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WSL command doesn't work through CMD/PowerShell [duplicate]
I'm trying to install software to multiple WSL distros, so I'm doing this using a batch file.
Here's an example command and its output:
CMD> wsl -u root -d Ubuntu-22.04 "apt-get update &&...
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script to restart process on Debian WSL
I have amule-daemon installed on Debian 11 WSL.
Process amuleweb crashes every now and then so I need to restart it.
I'm trying to automate this with the following bash script:
#!/bin/bash
if [[ $(...
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Can't figure out how to add padding to left side of Ubuntu 20.04.5 CLI in WSL 2(On Win11)
Posting here with updated detail after posting on AskUbuntu as user @NotTheDr01ds had a great answer but unfortunately it did not accomplish what I was hoping to accomplish.
I installed WSL 2 and ...
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Separate file path from command in Bash under WSL2
Is there a way to separate the file path from the commandline in the Bash prompt in WSL2?
For example:
Current:
user1@DESKTOP-RMF1234:~/mywork/helloworld/tests$ ls
Expect:
user1@DESKTOP-RMF1234:~/...
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How can I check if the environment is WSL from a shell script?
In .bashrc, I have some configuration for specific environments like this.
if [ "$(uname)" = 'Linux' ]; then
. "$HOME/.bash.d/ubuntu"
fi
if [ "$(uname)" = 'Darwin' ]; ...
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JAVA_HOME env var in WSL return the error "not defined correctly' when a try run a mvn command
I set the JAVA_HOME with the command export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin/java and tried to run an app with mvn compile jib:build.
But return this message: The JAVA_HOME environment ...
