On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Tony Kelman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
FWIW, you can't use shell for `cd` on any platforms supported by julia. > > > > 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 >>
