I think the quotes are wrong. Try using single or double quotes rather than apostrophes (admittedly it can be rather hard to tell in some fonts)
julia -e "for x in ARGS; println(x); end" foo bar On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Brandon Hartz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am new to julia and am trying to just get my feet wet. I am working > through the Julia PDF and am trying to do > > $ julia -e ’for x in ARGS; println(x); end’ foo bar > foo > bar > > which should print the result > > foo > bar > > but I get the error "syntax: extra token "for" after end of expression." > For clarity, I am already in a Julia setting so I excluded the word Julia > from the line, though I have tried both ways. > > Could someone explain to me what the end of the expression might be or why > this isn't working? Any help understanding this would be greatly > appreciated. >
