neosmart / Runinbash

Introduction

RunInBash is a simple tool designed to make running Linux applications easier and faster under WSL. RunInBash simply runs whatever you type after it under a bash shell and pipes the output back to the parent command line. No need to worry about nested quotes, escaping arguments, or anything else! Read more about $ and RunInBash in the official release notes on our blog. Binary releases are available for download on neosmart.net. RunInBash captures the exit code of the executed command and bubbles it back up to the caller, making writing complex scripts containing both Windows and Linux commands easy.

Installation

Just copy RunInBash.exe to your PATH. For best results, we recommend renaming it $.exe, allowing you to run any Linux command by simply prefixing it with $, e.g. $ ifconfig or $ git status.

An automated installer will be arriving in a future update shortly.

Screenshots & Examples

PS D:\git\RunInBash> git status
git : The term 'git' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the
spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ git status
+ ~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (git:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

PS D:\git\RunInBash> $ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.

nothing to commit, working directory clean

And an example of escaping magic at work:

C:\Users\NeoSmart>$ printf "It's just like \"%s\"!" magic
It's just like "magic"!

And here's how RunInBash can make advanced (bash|power)shell scripting pure joy: