You're reading from Windows Terminal Tips, Tricks, and Productivity Hacks Optimize your command-line usage and development processes with pro-level techniques

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800207561

Length 254 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Windows Terminal

Concepts

Web Utilities

Author (1):

Will Fuqua

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introducing the New Windows Terminal

2. Chapter 1: Getting started with the new Windows Terminal FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Learning the Windows Terminal UI

4. Chapter 3: Configuring an Ubuntu Linux profile

5. Section 2: Configuring your Windows Terminal and its shells

6. Chapter 4: Customizing your Windows Terminal settings

7. Chapter 5: Changing your Windows Terminal appearance

8. Chapter 6: Setting up keyboard shortcuts

9. Chapter 7: Hidden Windows Terminal Actions

10. Chapter 8: Tips for using PowerShell like a Pro

11. Chapter 9: Tips for Using Ubuntu like an Expert

12. Section 3: Using your Windows Terminal for development

13. Chapter 10: Using Git and GitHub with Windows Terminal

14. Chapter 11: Building web applications with React

15. Chapter 12: Building REST APIs with C# and Windows Terminal

16. Chapter 13: Connecting to remote systems

17. Chapter 14: Managing systems in the cloud

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix Windows Terminal Actions

Connecting to Windows computers with WinRM and SSH

In this section, we'll learn how to connect to remote Windows computers with both WinRM and SSH. Historically, the main way to connect to a remote Windows computer was with Remote Desktop. The Remote Desktop application was graphical; it showed the desktop of the remote computer, along with the cursor, icons, and menus. However, many modern Windows servers, such as those running Windows Server Core, are now headless—that is, they don't include a graphical user interface at all! This is done to both decrease installation size, and thus the size of updates, as well as to reduce the attack surface of the server. While Remote Desktop can still be used to connect to these headless servers, it only renders a terminal.

Rather than using a graphical application such as Remote Desktop to render a terminal, we can just use Windows Terminal to connect directly to the remote computer, without any graphical programs required...