
But much of what you use in Bash has a long and storied history behind it, and has stood the test of time.

In fact, quite the opposite of PowerShell which is very verbose, Bash prides itself on its terse, short names for commands and essential directories. Just remember, command lines are typically not very forgiving of typos, so make sure you’re good with typing in weird-looking cryptic commands. If you’ve ever used the DOS command line or PowerShell, you’ll quickly feel comfortable in Bash. So having said that, in this blog post I want to give you a few commands you should familiarize yourself with to get to know the Bash command line properly. Bash is very scriptable, and it’s a great tool for automating web dev tasks, like backing up sites in Apache, etc. In fact, I’d say what Bash on Ubuntu on Windows is probably most useful for web development and remote server management.
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So now that you have Bash on Ubuntu on Windows (which can be launched by invoking its name three times in the mirror), what to do with it? Some very smart people have already done some really cool things with Bash in the Windows 10 beta, even getting it to run Linux GUI apps, but for most people it’s really just very handy to have a Linux command line at your disposal without needing to fire up a dedicated Linux machine (which you can do in Azure for just a few bucks!) or switch to a Mac to perform simple tasks.

You can check out my earlier post for instructions on installation. It’s still technically a beta feature, and you’ll have to enable it in the control panel.

But the feature I’m most excited about is the general availability of Bash on Windows. Windows ink is a new feature for tablets and touch screens, extensions are coming to the Edge browser (finally), Microsoft Hello is extended for logging into other apps, along with lots of other minor updates, like new a new dark theme and updates to the start menu and notifications.
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To celebrate this milestone, Microsoft is releasing the Anniversary Update to Windows 10, one of the first major updates, and with it come some long-awaited features to its 300,000,000+ users. It seems crazy to me that it’s been a year already, but I honestly can’t imagine going back to Windows 8.1 (blurgh) or Windows 7 (double blurgh). This week marks the one-year anniversary of Windows 10’s release.
