On 27.10.2016 1:57, Duncan Roe wrote: > 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. >> > 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.
CMD supports pipes from the first published version (Windows NT 3.1, 1993). But WSL was isolated: until now it was not possible to run Win32 programs from WSL's bash and was not possible to redirect Win32 output to Linux application (and vice versa). -- 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
