Shell mode for scripts

[Lance Larsen]

In the julia interactive interpreter, the shell mode is very nice. I would like to be able to use julia as my main shell except for one thing. Shell mode is only available in interactive mode. Has there been discussion about having a way to enter shell mode in julia scripts. That would be awesome!

[Páll Haraldsson]

I'm not sure I get what you mean. E.g.:

julia> run(`ls`)

does the same for me as:

shell> ls

Note the shell, isn't actually a shell.. and not exactly the same as run. Maybe they are close enough, is is it bothering you? E.g. I couldn't run two shell commands this way:

julia> run(`ls;ls`)

run(`ls;ls`)

ERROR: could not spawn `ls;ls`: no such file or directory (ENOENT)

 in _jl_spawn at process.jl:262

 in anonymous at process.jl:415

 in setup_stdio at ./process.jl:403

 in __spawn#58__ at ./process.jl:414

 in run at ./process.jl:530

shell> ls;ls

shell> env

[does what I expect, include list HOME]

shell> echo $HOME

ERROR: UndefVarError: HOME not defined

[I'm on Linux, with Julia 4.0 here.]

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Palli.