WSL2

Installation

1. Activate Windows-Subsystem for Linux

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux

1. Restart
2. Install Ubuntu from Microsoft Store

Using New Windows Terminal

• profiles.json
  • set defaultProfile to Ubuntu
  • for linux home dir:

"commandline" : "wsl.exe ~ -d Ubuntu-18.04",

 "profiles":
    [
        {
            "guid": "{c6eaf9f4-32a7-5fdc-b5cf-066e8a4b1e40}",
            "source": "Windows.Terminal.Wsl",
            "name": "Ubuntu-18.04",
            "commandline": "wsl.exe ~ -d Ubuntu-18.04",
            "fontSize": 10
        },
        {
            "name": "server1",
            "commandline": "wsl.exe ~ -d Ubuntu-18.04 ssh server1",
            "fontSize": 10
        }
    ]

Running Linux Commands

• using bash.exe

bash.exe -c "jupyter-notebook ; /bin/bash"

• using wsl

wsl jupyter-notebook &

fstab

z: /mnt/z drvfs rw,relatime 0 0

Nmap

• Install Nmap for Windows
• .bashrc:

alias nmap='"/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Nmap/nmap.exe"'