> I don't think I'll count on Microsoft to maintain a usable Bash shell > without twerping it in some fashion so it becomes incompatible (like > they tried with numerous other products they "adopted"). The comment on > Greeks and gifts is right on target.
To be clear, bash here doesn't come from Microsoft - it's not Microsoft bash. It's Ubuntu's bash package, and all the rest of Ubuntu userland, including for example apt-get, so you can install whatever other Ubuntu packages you want and run them in Windows. At least in theory. What Microsoft is providing is the Linux kernel API. Of course there's still plenty of room for mischief or misimplementation there. Andrew -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
