Rockhopper – Launch windows apps from bash on Windows 10
I made a thing this afternoon. If you are using windows 10 and would like to open windows apps from the ubuntu bash shell normally you can't do that. I wrote this app to (sorta) let you do that. It's a two part app, first is a dotnet core webapi C# app that runs on your windows box. Next is a shell script that you put in your path on the ubuntu shell. It's called Rockhopper (named after a species of penguin, since you are hopping form Linux to windows with this app is just seemed like the right name :) ), and you invoke it like this: rockhopper -c code -a…
Rockhopper – Launch windows apps from bash on Windows 10 launched on October 15, 2016 with 28 votes, #1,544 of 3,690 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Rockhopper is a two-part tool for Windows 10 that enables launching Windows applications from the Ubuntu bash shell. It consists of a .NET Core web API running on Windows and a shell script for the Ubuntu side. Users can invoke Windows apps like Visual Studio Code with file arguments directly from bash, though the tool currently supports only one argument per command and requires Windows-launchable applications. It is designed for developers working with both Linux and Windows environments.
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I made a thing this afternoon. If you are using windows 10 and would like to open windows apps from the ubuntu bash shell normally you can't do that. I wrote this app to (sorta) let you do that. It's a two part app, first is a dotnet core webapi C# app that runs on your windows box. Next is a shell script that you…
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