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How To: Enabling Bash On Windows
Get your penguin on!
The command line is awesome.
Seriously — if you have only ever used a mouse to navigate a computer then you are missing out.
Way back in middle school I had a teacher for an anthropology class. One of the lessons from that class that has stuck with me all these years is how amazing and useful the human thumb is.
To illustrate this concept, one day he would have all of the students tape or wrap their thumbs so that they couldn’t use them and then try to complete the school day like that.
Let me tell you — it wasn’t easy.
That is a little bit like using a computer with only a mouse.
Sure — it is useful and handy and all, but you aren’t using all of the tools at your disposal.
So let’s un-tape that thumb and set up something amazing on Windows — bash.
If you aren’t familiar, bash is a command line app that provides tons of useful functionality for Linux systems. Instead of rewriting a bunch — just go read this: What is Bash?
