Umable to get the systemd workaround working

[privacyguy123]

After this step my editor just shows a load of mashed up @ symbols etc ...

$ sudo touch /usr/bin/bash
$ sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/bash
$ sudo editor /usr/bin/bash

[shayne]

Looks like /usr/bin/bash is being used on your distro by the actual bash program. Which distro are you using? You can replace the paths above with /usr/local/bin/bash as an alternative.

[ericlief]

This is because it's also Ubuntu 20 and there is a bash executable. I had to backup that file and create a new one, which posed problems in the following step, leading to a corrupted wsl.