Julia has portable functions for all of these, you don't need to use shell mode for cd, dir, readdir, mkdir, rm, mv, or cp.
On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 4:56:07 AM UTC-8, Andreas Lobinger wrote: > > Hello colleague, > > On Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 11:28:39 PM UTC+1, Tony Kelman wrote: >> >> Unix shell commands that we happened to be getting from git are no longer >> on Julia's path. This is not temporary. Windows is not unix. If you want to >> use unix shell commands on windows, either download and add your own >> windows posix layer to your path (temporarily in juliarc, not permanently >> where it will break other software), or call powershell which has many >> aliases spelled the same as unix shell commands. > > > i agree, windows is not unix (it never was) and the following might not be > helpful, but > Matlab provides (on any OS) a very small set of shell-like commands (cd, > dir, ls,mkdir, rmdir, delete, movefile, copyfile). > > And providing something like this at a julia REPL should be considered > user friendly. > > Wishing a happy day, > Andreas > >
