I ran into a weird issue while running Windows Subsystem for Linux(WSL) - Ubuntu in Windows 10. As background to the issues, the directory "C Program Files\WindowsApps\CanonicalGroupLimited ...

Now, believe it or not, you can install and run PowerShell, the Windows shell language, on Linux as an Ubuntu snap. Snaps are containerised software packages.

Developers can write Bash scripts and run them on Windows. It’s reportedly just as fast as running the same utilities natively on Ubuntu Linux.

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is bridging the divide between Windows and Linux by letting you run Windows 10 programs directly within a Linux shell.