bashrc_modifiers

Open the wsl's .bashrc file on Windows's portable Sublime Text with 1 click

Why use this app?

This app allows the user to open the .bashrc file safely without having to manualy navigate from the windows file explorer to open linux files, avoiding this way accidental moving, deletion and accidentally opening the file with notepad, which would compromise it's format.

Installation

• Install wsl2
• Download the file from the bin folder
• You can pin this app to the taskbar or start menus
• Download the portable Sublime Text
• Decompress the folder using WinRAR
• Move the folder anywhere you want to store Sublime Text
• In the search bar type control panel
• Open control panel and type env in the top right search bar
• Click Edit enviromental variables from your account
• At the top panel click New if you don't have a Path enviromental variable else click Edit
• Add Path in the variable name if it doesn't exist and click Browse Directory or Browse if you clicked to Edit the Path variable
• Select the folder you previously decompressed
• Click OK till all windows close

Usage

• Open the app
• Click the button to open and modify .bashrc
• When you finish close the folder and program

If you wanna change the default wsl distribution whose .bashrc to modify open PowerShell and type:

wsl -l -v

to list the installed distributions and:

wsl --setdefault <DistributionName>

to change the default distribution

If you want to use something sorter than source ~/.bashrc open wsl and type:

echo "alias sb='source ~/.bashrc'" >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc

This way if you have the wsl terminal open you can reload it to see changes from a modified .bashrc by simply typing sb