I use `cd` under shell on Linux, too. It's a nice shortcut. On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:20 AM, J Luis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Windows one can > > julia> pwd() > "C:\\programs\\Julia-0.4" > > shell> cd > C:\j > > julia> pwd() > "C:\\j" > > quarta-feira, 20 de Janeiro de 2016 às 15:45:04 UTC, Yichao Yu escreveu: >> >> 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 >> >> >> >
