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
>> >>
>>
>

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