Quickly run a WSL/Linux command from a Windows (e.g., PowerShell or CMD) prompt.
This is essentially a variant of RunInBash designed to run Linux commands under WSL inside the bottle created by genie (see https://github.com/arkane-systems/genie) if you aren't familiar with genie, which permits the use of systemd and its services under WSL.
RunInGenie runs the supplied command using genie -c, feeding back stdout and stderr, and passing the return code back to the caller, for your convenience in building hybrid Windows/Linux scripts.
Simply prefix the Linux command with the dollar sign ($):
$ uname -a
and there you go!
Linux athena-wsl 5.4.83-arkane-20210117-microsoft-custom-wsl2+ #4 SMP Sun Jan 17 08:37:12 CST 2021 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Note that by default pipes (|) will be interpreted by PowerShell, so:
$ ls -la 'C:\Program Files' | clip
Will send the directory listing to the Windows clip.exe. If you wish to pipe within WSL, you must escape it with a backtick (`), thus:
$ ls -la 'C:\Program Files' `| less
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This assumes, of course, that you already have genie installed and running correctly. If not, it won't work.
genie 1.32 or higher is recommended, as earlier versions of genie had issues with arguments containing spaces.
If $ ls -la 'C:\Program Files\' produces an error complaining that ls can't find /mnt/c/Program, you need
to upgrade your genie installation.
Yes, there almost certainly are. Quoting is complicated.
Reports of commands which break when used with RunInGenie are welcome. Patches and pull requests are even more welcome.
