Using WSL from Java

With Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) we can now use Linux tools, such as grep, rsync, ssh, and network commands, such as dig and netstat, on Windows directly. No need for cygwin or other 3rd party software.

Here’s an example on how uname is unknown to Windows, but WSL (Ubuntu in my case) knows it:

WSL can be used to run Linux commands, such as uname.
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