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:
![](https://humanoid-readable.claude-martin.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/wsl.png)