Pretending WSL commands are native to Powershell
Today I have solved one of the biggest frustrations in Windows - no availability of Linux commands. If you are on Windows, WSL is a life saver, but that only works from inside the WSL bash console (am I calling it right?) so you would have to open another console, map windows mount to the correct path, and that might or might not work. Pretty tedious.
Another solution is prepending every command with wsl
i.e. to call grep
from powershell, you would write wsl grep...
etc. This is better but still sucks when you forget you are in windows.
So today I found a perfect solution - there is a powershell module called WSL Interop that makes powershell pretend the commands are available on windows.
Quick Start
If you don’t want to read the whole manual, installation is actually pretty simple:
Install-Module WslInterop
That does it.
Then to make a command available in powershell:
Import-WslCommand grep
That does it:
To persist those, just add a set of Import-WslCommand
to your powershell profile!
The original really awesome article I stumbled upon is here.
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