{"id":263285,"date":"2026-06-03T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/grep-this-microsoft-grafts-most-linux-commands-onto-windows\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:10:09","slug":"grep-this-microsoft-grafts-most-linux-commands-onto-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/grep-this-microsoft-grafts-most-linux-commands-onto-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/os-platforms\/2026\/06\/03\/grep-this-microsoft-grafts-most-linux-commands-onto-windows\/5250796\">Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/os-platforms\/2026\/06\/03\/grep-this-microsoft-grafts-most-linux-commands-onto-windows\/5250796\">https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/os-platforms\/2026\/06\/03\/grep-this-microsoft-grafts-most-linux-commands-onto-windows\/5250796<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-03 15:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theregister.com\">www.theregister.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steve Ballmer\u2019s darkest fear has come to pass: Linux has worked itself into the deepest innards of Microsoft Windows itself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the company\u2019s annual Build developer conference this week, Microsoft released coreutils, a Rust-built multi-call binary file for Windows that serves over 75 Unix commands directly in the Windows CMD and PowerShell command lines \u2013 including favorites such as cat, ls, grep, and head. They join Linux favorites curl and sudo which were earlier added to the Microsoft command lines.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrep in full glory is now available for full Windows access,\u201d enthused Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella yesterday during his Build keynote. Grep (Global Regular Expression Print) provides a way to search through all the files in a given space \u2013 it\u2019s essential for searching through gargantuan log files for instance.\u00a0 It is one of the many commands memorized by the daily Linux user.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            Behold! Grep on Windows CMD\n        <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s stated motivation in evoking Linux powers is an effort to standardize user commands across the multiverse of platforms it supports so that developer scripts work the same way across containers, PowerShell, Macs, the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), and the DOS-era CMD command line.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unix was built on the philosophy of small programs that can be easily piped together to build larger workflows, so that, say, the output of grep can be combined with other material through the cat (concatenate) command.\u00a0 As a result, developers, admins, and now AI agents write scripts that incorporate these commands.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The adoption is also good news for Linux expats who occasionally work in the Windows CMD: They will no longer need to remember the standard \u201cls\u201d command for listing the contents doesn\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/os-platforms\/2026\/06\/03\/grep-this-microsoft-grafts-most-linux-commands-onto-windows\/5250796\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/os-platforms\/2026\/06\/03\/grep-this-microsoft-grafts-most-linux-commands-onto-windows\/5250796 Publish Date: 2026-06-03 15:04:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.theregister.com\/5250857.jpg?imageId=5250857&x=0&y=0&cropw=100&croph=100&panox=0&panoy=0&panow=100&panoh=100&width=1200&height=683","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-263285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263287,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263285\/revisions\/263287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}