On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 12:21:07AM +0300, Evgeny Grin wrote: > With latest Window Insider preview it's possible to run Linux command > from cmd, Windows commands from bash and even use input-output redirects! > https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/10/19/windows-and-ubuntu-interoperability/ > Seems that WSL also automatically translate \r\n<->\n. > > There still no (official) way to run GUI with WSL. > > Is Cygwin still better for something? > > I understand that WSL and Cygwin are completely different approaches, > but from user perspective both are kind of sets of GNU/Linux commands > and both are using some intermediate layer (cygwin1.dll or LXSS). > CMD.EXE has supported input and output redirection since forever (XP at least). I suggest claiming it as a "new feature" is just marketing hype.
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