Windows 10: Anybody familiar with WSL?

Having a problem (i believe?) thats always been a thing. Would like to understand the cause and remedy it.

I had a developer buddy throw together a few scripts for me in order to do something I needed that would have been impossible manually. For better or worse, he hasnt touched windows in a lot of years, therefore they came as .bash

I sorted out how to run them and they did their job just fine. Somewhere along the way, i stumbled upon another developer who tossed together a registry package to allow execution of them via double clicking. Win for useability and parity in general, and ive been using that - again without fail.

However the other day i noticed that relative to most scripts (all?) that ive ran .. ever. The bash scripts output nothing to the console window. execute the script and i get a cursor until its done. and some of them take a loooong while so you never know.

Ive become accustomed to this being the case but id prefer to have them output to the window so i can see theyre running and potentially see if one got stuck or had an issue etc etc.

I reached out to my associate, and he mentioned that in native linux they output, however he's unsure how it works with WSL so was unable to offer assistance.

Anybody able to guide me on this one?

:)

 

WSL in windows Store

Actually, this is a consumer-oriented forum for general Windows 10 questions.

As WSL concerns mostly developers and Enterprise, I suggest asking there.

 

Recovering Debian WSL after restting PC

Hi stéphane70,

Thank you for sharing a few details about yout concern. To get your Debian WSL
installed on your Windows 10, I recommend the steps suggested on this article. You might also want to check the
distros available after the installation for your reference. If you still get the same error
message, I advise that you perform a clean boot first and seek if the issue still re-occurs. There might
be a program that is preventing your WSL to be installed. However, if you still get the same issue, then the next steps is
creating a new user profile and naming it as
test. By doing so, we'd be able to eliminate the possibility of a certain setting hindering the installation.

I'll be waiting for the results and your response to assist you for there.

 

Using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in an Enterprise

Source: Using WSL in an Enterprise Windows Command Line Tools For Developers