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I find myself in the following situation.

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.165]
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C:\...> b
'b' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\...> b.bat
Welcome to wsl-alias! Put your environment variables in ~/.wsl/env.sh

If I move b.bat to another directory that is on my path and outside the WSL file system, it can be found using just 'b'.

I already tried reinstalling a few times.

Did I miss something, or is PATHEXT not applicable to WSL directories (anymore)?

On my Windows, the real path to WSL is C:\Users\micha\AppData\Local\lxss\home\m93a\.wsl, not %localappdata%\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc\LocalState\rootfs\home\m93a\.wsl as your program reports.

Hi,

I'm running v2.3 on Windows 10 x64 1803 with Debian installed in WSL and I installed wsl-alias using the provided installer. I've encountered several problems.

I've added an alias for php like this:

C:\Users\Me>b wsl-alias add php php

To verify it really is running from WSL:

C:\Users\Me>php -a
Interactive mode enabled

php > system("uname");
Linux

Running files using a relative path works:

C:\Users\Me>php Documents\Projects\test.php

Using a full path however, does not:

C:\Users\Me>php C:\Users\Me\Documents\Projects\test.php
Could not open input file: C:/Users/Me/Documents/Projects/test.php

Also, some special characters in arguments cause problems. Parantheses will not work:

C:\Users\Me>php -r "exit()"
/bin/bash: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/bin/bash: -c: line 0: `~/.wsl-alias/wrapper.sh 'C:\\Users\\Me' php -r \"exit()\"'

Semicolons will also cause errors:

C:\Users\Me>php -r "exit;"
/home/me/.wsl-alias/wrapper.sh: eval: line 41: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
/home/me/.wsl-alias/wrapper.sh: eval: line 42: syntax error: unexpected end of file

Let me know if I can be of any help.

EDIT: For clarification, running these commands without wsl-alias using only the native wsl, all special characters work:

C:\Users\Me>wsl php -r "printf('Test(\"Test\");');"
Test("Test");

important things to consider:

• alias .bat files should be in a windows accessible path (most likely /mnt/c - have to find a way to check the default drive)
• use wslpath to translate the windows path into the unix path
• remove the privileged user and grant the default user access to mount without password
• work on string escaping problems

since the fall update came out, there are a few things we should update

• documentation
• try supporting multiple wsl distros at once (not sure if this is entirely possible)
• windows aliases (this has been on my list for a while)
• try to automatically add windows path from the installer

if anyone wants to contribute, I'd appreciate the help

I might not be doing this properly, but I tried to create an alias to an absolute path to a program and it threw an error.

C:\Users\cjk>b wsl-alias add node /home/offero/.nvm/versions/v8.15.0/bin/node
Unknown regexp modifier "/h" at -e line 1, at end of line
syntax error at -e line 1, near "/."
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
successfully added

Node is probably not the best example to do this with, but I'm sure there are others.

The install script does not wait for user input regarding the default alias:

$ curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/leongrdic/wsl-alias/master/install.sh | bash
...
Choose a command you'd like to use to call bash from Windows
Command [b]:
The installation has completed!
...

I did not enter an empty line there. (Tried a few times, to be sure.)