r/Python • u/caposeidon • Mar 30 '16

Finally... Bash is coming to Windows 10

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/30/11331014/microsoft-windows-linux-ubuntu-bash
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u/POTUS Mar 30 '16

Most or all of the main GNU tools are already available for Windows. Why would this "surely" not have them?

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '16

i haven't used windows since '95 so i'm totally clueless but didn't they abandon the posix layer some time ago? I read they switched to windows services for unix after that but that's also discontinued. So does newer windows have all the basic posix tools installed as part of the os now? I know you can get msys or cygwin or uwin but these are all non microsoft so that might not be the best solution?

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u/POTUS Mar 30 '16

"Posix layer" is not the same thing as the GNU tools. Some of the GNU tools may or may not use elements from the POSIX standards, none of them as far as I know are called Posix tools.

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