Using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

Sharing files between Windows Subsystem for Linux and Windows

Access the Windows files from Linux

• Start WSL
• In the terminal navigate to the /mnt directory

cd /mnt

• The drives are mounted to sub-directories

root@P70:/mnt# ls -l
total 0
drwxrwxrwx  c
drwxrwxrwx  d

Access the Linux files from Windows

• Start the WSL application in Windows 10 (in this case with the Ubuntu distro)
  
• Open Windows Explorer in Windows 10
• Navigate to \\wsl$
  

Enable copy/paste

To enable copy/paste in the default WSL terminal

• Right-click the top bar and select Properties
  
• On the Options tab check Use Ctrl+Shift+C/V as Copy/Paste
  
• You can also enable a larger command history buffer.