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Use Mosh on Windows from the Command Prompt
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Hi all. After wanting true color support in Mosh (to use Brow.sh), I also wanted to integrate it more tightly with Windows. Since I reckon more people will be wanting to accomplish this, here is a guide.

  1. Install Linux Subsystem for Windows if you haven't already (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10) (I use Ubuntu)
  2. Make sure you can execute bash from a CMD prompt.
  3. Go into the bash environment by executing bash ~ in CMD prompt
  4. Install Mosh-dev (for up-to-date version) from https://launchpad.net/~keithw/+archive/ubuntu/mosh-dev by doing sudo add-apt-repository ppa:keithw/mosh-dev then sudo apt-get update
  5. Create a new mosh.bat file on your Desktop with the following contents
@echo off
bash ~ -c "mosh %*"

This launches a Linux bash and passes all the arguments you passed to the batch file on to the mosh program there.

  1. Place the mosh.bat file somewhere in your Path (I ended up making a C:\bin\ directory, putting it there and adding that to my path)

You should now be able to just open a CMD window and type mosh your.server.com and it should appear in the same window, as if it was running on Windows directly.

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