在 Windows 上的特定或当前文件夹中启动 WSL Ubuntu

Question

When installing Subsystem for Linux and Ubuntu from store on his development machine I can switch (or start) to Ubuntu shell by simply

But the Ubuntu shell start in /home/techsupp folder by default. Is it possible to force it to start in same folder than the one I use my Ubuntu command?

So in my example I should be in

/mnt/h

Thank you.

What I already tried:

H:\>ubuntu help
Launches or configures a linux distribution.

Usage:
    <no args>
      - Launches the distro's default behavior. By default, this launches your default shell.

    run <command line>
      - Run the given command line in that distro, using the default configuration.
      - Everything after `run ` is passed to the linux LaunchProcess call.

    config [setting [value]]
      - Configure certain settings for this distro.
      - Settings are any of the following (by default)
        - `--default-user <username>`: Set the default user for this distro to <username>

    clean
      - Uninstalls the distro. The appx remains on your machine. This can be
        useful for "factory resetting" your instance. This removes the linux
        filesystem from the disk, but not the app from your PC, so you don't
        need to redownload the entire tar.gz again.

    help
      - Print this usage message.

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Answer 1

I'm on Windows 10 Home with May Update and have Ubunto 18.04 for WSL installed, I can open the console in any folder with Shift + Right Click and selecting the Open Linux shell here option

Answer 2

如果您在任务管理器中检查资源管理器“在此处打开 Linux shell”选项如何打开 wsl，您可以看到有一个“--cd”选项。

Answer 3

ubuntu run

run <command line>
Run the provided command line in the current working directory. If no
command line is provided, the default shell is launched.

As far as I can tell the effect is the same as running ubuntu , except that it starts in the current directory.

This command works even as a right click open here command in explorer. Adapting from this article :

• RegEdit to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\Directory\\Background\\shell and create a new key
• edit (Default) to "Open Ubuntu here" or similar.
• add a key named command
• edit (Default) to ubuntu run

Now you have a functional "Open Ubuntu here" right click menu in explorer.

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The problem I have with wsl is that the wsl bash window doesn't have the Ubuntu icon, even if it starts the Ubuntu distribution.

Answer 4

If you use wsl.exe , it will start WSL in current directory. But the difference between wsl and ubuntu is that if you have installed two or more distros (e,g, Ubuntu and Fedora), the default one will get started. You can set the default to Ubuntu by running wslconfig /setdefault Ubuntu .

Reference: [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config

Answer 5

seems that there is a very simpel solution.

just add the following in Ubuntu configuration in the profiles.json file

"commandline": "wsl ~ -d Ubuntu",

Answer 6

The method that has worked for me is to use the Windows Terminal app and configure it to start in the desired location.

Example based on WSL2 and Ubuntu 20.04:

settings.json - Add this line to "Ubuntu-20.04" section:

    "startingDirectory": "//wsl$/Ubuntu-20.04/home/<username>/"

Change <username> to be the name of the user you created on install of Ubuntu 20.04.

Answer 7

with this little script you can execute every command from the directory your Powershell is currently in. It only works if the drive is already mounted to /mnt/ in the subsystem. It doesn't work with network resources.

function tux {$dl = (pwd).Path | wsl eval "cut -c 1 | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'"; $wd = (pwd).Path | wsl eval "cut -d : -f 2 | tr '\\' '/' 2> /dev/null" ; wsl eval "cd '/mnt/$dl$wd' && eval '$args'"}

after you have executed it, you can use it like this:

tux vim test.txt

Answer 8

First, you have to check whether wsl is using ubuntu as default or not. For me it was not. Write the below command on cmd:

wsl -l

Like this

If not then Write wsl -s Ubuntu-20.04 to set it as default. Now you can run ubuntu bash from any directory by doing shift + Rightclick as shown Here .

Answer 9

Modern solution

1. Install windows terminal , from Microsoft store

2. Go on settings

3. Once you have ubuntu installed you will see it on the list of profiles and then click on open json

4. Open cmd , type wsl , type cd , type pwd wslc then copy the path [!

5. And put it in the json file, on ubuntu profile, startingDirectory

Note: I have used linux home directory as default directory used by ubuntu. So if you feel like you have other directory you want to use you can replace it with /home/claranceliberi to your own prefereble directory

Answer 10

if your default terminal is Ubuntu , then you can open Ubuntu in the current dir easily.

Go to the address bar of the file explorer by clicking on it

or you can use keyboard shortcut alt+d and

there type

wt -d .

and if the default is Ubuntu , it will open Ubuntu on that path or you can also type

ubuntu run 

and it doesn't matter if the default terminal is Ubuntu or not, it will open ubuntu there regardless of anything.

Answer 11

Step 1: InstallWindows Terminal

Step 2: Go to the folder you want to open ubuntu in and open Windows Terminal by right-clicking.

Step 3: Go to Windows Terminal Settings and navigate to your Linux distro (in my case Ubuntu 20.04) and check this option.

Now every time you open ubuntu through the Windows terminal it will open in that directory.