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Windows Terminal Tips, Tricks, and Productivity Hacks

By : Will Fuqua
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Book Image

Windows Terminal Tips, Tricks, and Productivity Hacks

5 (1)
By: Will Fuqua

Overview of this book

Windows Terminal is a new and open-source command-line application for Windows 10, built for the Command Prompt, PowerShell, Windows Subsystem for Linux, and more. It's fast, modern, and configurable thanks to its GPU-accelerated rendering, excellent UTF-8 support, and JSON-based configurability, and this book can help you learn how to leverage these features. You’ll start by learning the benefits of Windows Terminal and its open-source development, as well as how to use the built-in tabs, panes, and key bindings to build your own efficient terminal workflows. After you’ve mastered Windows Terminal, this book shows how to use and configure PowerShell Core and the Windows Subsystem for Linux within Windows Terminal. You’ll maximize your productivity using powerful tools such as PSReadLine for PowerShell and ZSH on Linux, and discover useful tips and tricks for common developer tools like Git and SSH. Finally, you’ll see how Windows Terminal can be used in common development and DevOps tasks, such as developing frontend JavaScript applications and backend REST APIs, and managing cloud-based systems like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. By the end of this book, you'll not only be well-versed with Windows Terminal, but also have learned how to effectively use shells like PowerShell Core and ZSH to become proficient at the command line.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introducing the New Windows Terminal
5
Section 2: Configuring your Windows Terminal and its shells
12
Section 3: Using your Windows Terminal for development

Chapter 13: Connecting to remote systems

So far in this book, we've mostly stayed confined to a single computer. We've developed client-side and server-side applications using Windows Terminal, and the next step is to connect to remote computers so we can deploy our applications! In this chapter, we'll break out of our single-machine confines and learn how to connect to both Windows and Linux systems remotely.

We'll start out by comparing the options for connecting remotely and configuring our systems for remote access. We'll then learn how to streamline our remote access with Windows Terminal, Secure Shell (SSH), and the Secure Copy Protocol (SCP).

By the end of this chapter, we'll be able to decide between WinRM and SSH remote access, set up both inbound and outbound SSH access on Windows, and take advantage of the shortcuts and conveniences that SSH and SCP provide. We'll cover the following topics:

  • Connecting to Windows computers...