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The Windows bash shell would be a lot better if you could interact with files on your normal Windows filesystem, like Desktop and Dropbox, and vice versa with o
by PascLeRasc 8y ago
The Windows bash shell would be a lot better if you could interact with files on your normal Windows filesystem, like Desktop and Dropbox, and vice versa with opening files you made in Bash in Atom outside.
- lediur 8y agoYou can do that in WSL already - the Windows drives are mounted and writable through the Linux file system as /mnt/c, /mnt/d, and so on. You can use Linux executables to create, delete, and modify files just as you'd expect with any file system mount (without some Linux-specific concepts like permissions). With WSL, I've been able to run Linux-based dev and build tools and Windows IDEs at the same time on source stored in the Windows world with no issues. On the other hand, it's true that you can't / shouldn't modify files on the Linux file system (i.e. Files outside of /mnt/...) in Windows itself since the Linux-specific concepts would get mangled. With the mounts though, there shouldn't be any need to do this.