Access Local Files from Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

A simple guide on how to navigate to local files on Windows when working with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). There’s a few ways of doing this:

# Navigate with cd /mnt/c/
# Open WSL from PowerShell Session

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Navigate with CD /mnt/c/

Local drives can be found in /mnt/ folder, so just cd into that and tab-complete to list sub-folders.

cd ~
cd /mnt/c/temp

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Open WSL from PowerShell Session

When we open WSL in PowerShell, the Linux session scope will be within the mounted Windows directory:

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