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# The Bash shell is coming to Windows 10 in the upcoming Anniversary Update (Redstone).
- URL: https://developerinsider.co/the-bash-shell-is-coming-to-windows-10-in-the-upcoming-anniversary-update-redstone/
- Published: 2016-04-07T18:34:47.000Z
- Updated: 2018-03-29T17:00:50.000Z
- Author: Vineet Choudhary
- Tags: News, Microsoft, Build2016

In a press and analyst briefing a few months back, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella put up a slide proclaiming **Microsoft ♥ Linux**. Wow! What a great slide and what a change for Microsoft! The trade press picked up on this slide in a major way, with a number of articles echoing this new approach to Linux and open source within Microsoft. And they’re right!

> "The Bash shell is coming to Windows. Yes, the real Bash is coming to Windows," said Microsoft's Kevin Gallo at Build 2016 keynote. "This is not a VM \[Virtual Machine\]. This is not cross-compiled tools. This is native."

Here's the steps to run Bash on Windows 10 OS:

1. Open the Windows Start menu
2. Type "bash" \[hit enter\]
3. Which opens a `cmd.exe` console running Ubuntu's `/bin/bash` with full access to all of Ubuntu user space

Yes, you are right, that means `apt`, `set`, `ssh`, `rsync`, `find`, `ls`, `grep`, `awk`, `sed`, `sort`, `xargs`, `md5sum`, `gpg`, `curl`, `wget`, `apache`, `mysql`, `python`, `perl`, `ruby`, `ruby gem`, `php`, `gcc`, `tar`, `vim`, `emacs`, `diff`, `patch`, nano...and most of the tens of thousands binary packages available in the Ubuntu archives!

Also, Rich Turner and Russ Alexander recorded a Build 2016 session introducing and demonstrating Bash running on Ubuntu on Windows.