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.

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> On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 4:56:07 AM UTC-8, Andreas Lobinger wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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
>>

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