Install bash on Windows

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Install bash on windows with a few easy steps.

First, why would you want to do this?

• You’re moving to windows from macOS or a Linux distribution and used the command line there
• You simply like the bash shell for things like alias, functions, etc

• Click the Start button
• Search for Powershell
• Right click the Windows PowerShell icon
• Choose Run as Administrator
• Run this shell command

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux

Reboot!

Alternatively you can install Cygwin.