 So this is the second video where we're talking about getting a Linux shell on a Windows machine now I do know that Windows has Linux subsystem and even runs the Linux kernel I'll supposedly when you're working with that subsystem. I don't know about any of that I'm talking about just be able to get a useful shell and your core tools available quickly and simply on a Windows machine whether it's Windows 10 or going back Probably all the way back to XP. I would assume this would work in the previous video We looked at using busy box, which really truly wasn't bash now We're looking at something else that actually probably it truly is a bash shell But it has all your core tools as separate executables as well So you don't even have to go into the shell to X to call those executables But the drawback is it's not one file and it's much larger than the busy box option So most cases I go with the busy box option But here's another option for you to check out. So again, as I mentioned in the last video I record this on a Windows machine and I was unable to preview the videos I was recording and so the frame rate is Kind of horrible and I record the audio separate on my phone So take this video for what it is. It was the best I could do with the situation. I have I hope you learned something from it I hope you find it useful. Okay, we're looking at another way to install bash on a Windows system again I'm aware that there's the whole Linux subsystem for Windows, which I'm assuming is more than just a bash executable But I haven't played with that at all in a previous video. We looked at using busy box But let's go ahead and look at this if you Google bash for Windows somewhere in the list You'll probably find this when bash bash ports for Windows and it's on source forage so go ahead and click on that and we'll scroll down and Click on the download the latest and I have Pretty much no experience with this. I just downloaded to test it and it does seem to work I do prefer again the busy box Example so this is in a zip file just over five megabytes where the busy box was About half a megabyte. So this is about 10 times the size But it does seem to have a few more tools, but you notice it's not a single executable file And if you look into here, there's libraries So this looks like it's using Sigwin, which I think is how you say that So which is like a Linux or Unix type environment for Windows? And this just seems like it's taking certain files from it and giving it to you one little zip file So what I'm gonna do here is I'm just going to Copy all these. I'll go to my downloads directory and I will create a new Folder I'll call it bash I'll go in there. So again, there's a bash executable in here and it looks like after this is extracted it's 13 megabytes So now it's you know, almost 30 times the size busy box, but again, there seems like there's more tools in here There's even a C compiler in here. It looks like Once that is done extracting I will go ahead and run CMD I'm moving to my downloads directory and then moving to my bash directory here And now I should be able to type in well, I shouldn't theoretically think you'll type in these commands So yeah, I can run these xp. So if you were to extract these files to your win system 32 folder I would think they'd be usable already in your Windows programming scripts But we should be able to type in bash here and actually get a bash shell and with the busy box Like I said, it had a bash shell But I'm not sure if that truly was bash or if it was another shell the a shell or hash shell However, we say it which is very similar but may not be completely compatible where this might be a actual bash shell But once you're in here, you should be able to have all your your commands that you can run That you would normally be able to run, you know, you should probably have grep in here Ock and these might be fuller versions of the program. That's pretty sure when I typed in Ock in busy box It gave me a lot less options and the help output Then then this is so it's another option again The busy box option is nice. It's a single binary and has most those core tools And it's very small where this is multiple files. You can extract There's no linking with busy box if I wanted to access W get From like a batch file when it was batch file. I would have to call it through busy box. We're here or link it We're here. It's just a W get executable So all these tools again are available If I was to put them in my system path anywhere I want So you got your G zip and and grep and bunch of other things in here So more than just those core tools that I normally would use But this is another option for installing a shell of some sort in this case. It's probably an actual bash shell If I did echo dollar sign zero just tells me bash. Okay But yeah, I just wanted to give you another option by is in here. Oh, I didn't seem to work through this It's having problems with my terminal type probably. Yeah, probably a way to get that working But by did work through busy box. So if you need that which is still again, probably a stripped-down version of by not full version But yeah looking through here. There's Yeah, 119 items in here an empty folder and some libraries But most of these are probably about a hundred different commands that you probably used to on your link system Now available Your Windows system and I have to do is put them in that Windows system 32 folder or in any folder that you have linked to a As a path in your path variable And you should be able to access them. So you'll account to a hundred here. If I is the chef command in here It's not and I think the chef command is in the busy box Let me exit out of here go back and I'll go I don't actually have to go out here I did put busy box in my system directory. So I should just go do this and now if I do this count to a hundred I can pipe that to chef. Yeah, so the chef commands in the busy box one Which is a very useful tool although. I'm sure there's something you probably use ochre grep to shuffle follow pretty sure Or the output of a command Anyway, that's just a quick look at another way to get a shell Bass shell or some sort of Unix type shell on a Windows machine with a lot of core tools So I do thank you for watching and I hope that you have a great day