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Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

by Rich Turner blogs.msdn.microsoft.com published 2016-04-07

At //Build 2016, Microsoft announced the ability to run native Bash and GNU/Linux command-line tools directly on the new Windows Subsystem for Linux

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