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jhasse on Feb 23, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Docker in Production: An Update

You could always run bash on Windows using Cygwin or MSYS before.

nunez on Feb 23, 2017 [–]

LXSS (Bash on Ubuntu on Windows) is an honest-to-goodness installation of Ubuntu running on top of Windows using the Linux subsystem. Cygwin/MSYS are more limited in comparison (or at least I have found them to be so).

jhasse on Feb 27, 2017 | [–]

Have you tried MSYS2?

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