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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

Installing Linux applications: nginx

We've just installed a fully functioning Ubuntu operating system inside Windows 10. Let's familiarize ourselves with it by performing a task we might need to perform in the real world. We'll install and configure nginx, the most popular web server software in the world. Nginx powers about 30% of the entire web, and is a very common deploy target for web-based software.

We'll install nginx using apt, the built-in package manager for Ubuntu. First, we'll update our list of available packages:

sudo apt update

Next, we'll install nginx:

sudo apt install nginx

With just two commands, we've now installed nginx. These steps are the same steps we'd take if we were running Ubuntu natively installed on our computer or server. The binaries we're downloading and installing as part of the apt install command are not special versions for Windows; they're native binaries and scripts directly from...