[julia-users] opening a .txt file by invoking julia from the shell

[adrian . viehweger]

Dear Julia community,

I am trying to open a .txt file to process it with Julia like so:

julia -e 'using DataFrames; df = readtable("somefile.txt", header=false, 
separator=' '); println(df[1,1])'

I get:

ERROR: syntax: incomplete: premature end of input

probably because in trying to specify the separator I use '

Is there a way around this? 

Thanks a lot!
Adrian