WSL access filesystem from Windows Host

From Windows, you can access the filesystem of your WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) distributions directly using the $wsl$ network share (exists by default).

For instance, to list my home folder (user “alg”):

ls \\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\alg

This assumes you have a WSL distribution named “Ubuntu”. You can replace “Ubuntu” with the name of your installed WSL distribution. To list WSL distributions, you can run:

> wsl --list -v
  NAME      STATE           VERSION
* Ubuntu    Running         2
  Debian    Stopped         2