Presentation¶
Philosophy¶
The Linux Shell is an amazing, fantastic, tremendous productivity tool.
It allows you to control a lot of daily local and remote tasks more efficiently and smoothly than the standard Windows 7 mouse based workflow.
If you follow this guide from the beginning you installed MinGW -w64 without Msys.
It means that you only have the GCC compiler tools but you don’t have a Linux shell.
Git for Windows, in addition to Git commands, contains a Linux shell.
This part of the guide will help you to set up Console 2 as a front end terminal and use it to login automatically to the Git for Windows Linux shell.
You will be able to use more efficiently MinGW -w64 and take the benefit of the other integrated Linux Shell functionalities.
Goals¶
- Access your terminal from everywhere
- Use your terminal inside Sublime Text
- Open softwares from your terminal
- Open files with specific software from your terminal
- Launch Linux and Windows scripts from your terminal
Warning
This part of the guide is not
- A full integration of the Linux Shell
- A course on the Linux Shell
- A course on gcc tools usage
- A course on Git for Windows usage
Tip
If you are a beginner in Linux Shell usage follow strictly this part of the guide and use your freshly build terminal to learn the basis of
- Linux Shell commands
- gcc tools commands (MinGW -w64)
- git commands
Invest time in learning those tools is far to be a waste of time.