Installing a Terminal Window for Windows Users¶

The following notes are specific modifications that were tested and worked for the WRF User Support group. There is no guarantee they will work for every Windows system, but following these steps may help with problems Windows users may encounter.

Installing a Terminal Window¶

MobaXterm is a linux terminal emulator that offers a standard linux command environment and can support the display of images on local Windows machines. It may also provide a linux terminal environment that is easier to use and with a more standard version of linux than those from the Windows applications PowerShell or Command Prompt.

Download MobaXterm: https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/
Choose: Home Edition (free version)
Install MobaXterm: Unzip MobaXterm downloaded file (Example filename: MobaXterm_Portable_<version>.zip)

Using MobaXterm¶

Double click on file MobaXterm_Personal_<version>.exe.
Click Run if Windows queries Do you want to run this file?
Click Start local terminal on the MobaXterm window that appears.

Notes¶

With MobaXterm’s version of linux, the linux “forward slash” (/) convention and character in pathnames is used to specify directories instead of the Windows backslash () convention/character. Thus, when changing to a different Windows directory via a MobaXterm command line, specify the target directory as C:/home/user instead of C:homeuser. For e.g.,
```
cd C:/home/user
```
If using AWS cloud computing - Key pair setup: If using Windows PowerShell for the linux environment, to change permissions on your keypair.pem file, use the command Icacls to grant the user full permissions on .pem file as follows:
```
Icacls filename.pem /Grant user:F
```

Note

Using: /G instead of /Grant may result in a message of Invalid parameter “/G”.