Issue
I am struggling to figure out how to launch a new "command prompt" window via a bash command in WSL. The goal is to launch a second prompt preferably already in bash.
I have already tried running cmd.exe
yet that just drops me to a standard windows command prompt cmd from with in the bash shell.
https://i.imgur.com/tIdRMvR.png
Running the bash.exe
or wsl.exe
commands just takes me to another bash shell from within that same bash shell.
https://i.imgur.com/OM1XTlG.png
I am using the Debian distribution for WSL though that should not matter.
I know you can make a new window from the standard command prompt by putting the start
command before the program. Yet I can not find the *nix equivalent or how to call a bash command from within WSL that does the same thing.
Solution
This works from a bash prompt in WSL.
cmd.exe /c start cmd.exe /c wsl.exe
(Solution found here)
Answered By - DanR