Start julia with REPL, loading script, and passing arguments

[Josef Sachs]

I am trying to start julia
(1) in interactive mode, i.e. with the REPL,
(2) loading a script, and
(3) passing command line arguments

I can accomplish (1) and (2) with
julia -i -L startup.jl
but I can't manage to pass additional arguments without producing an error.

juser@juliabox:~$ julia -i -L startup.jl foo bar
ERROR: could not open file /home/juser/foo
in include at ./boot.jl:245
in include_from_node1 at loading.jl:128
in process_options at ./client.jl:285
in _start at ./client.jl:354
juser@juliabox:~$ echo $?
1

Is there any way I can accomplish this?

[Stefan Karpinski]

I'm not sure that we support this at the moment. The part that's not supported seems to be passing command-line arguments in interactive mode.

[Devendra Ghate]

Shouldn't `read(STDIN,arg1,arg2)` in the startup.jl work?

Devendra

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Devendra Ghate

[David van Leeuwen]

Hello, 

On Sunday, February 15, 2015 at 8:31:50 PM UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski wrote:

I'm not sure that we support this at the moment. The part that's not supported seems to be passing command-line arguments in interactive mode.

The command line args seem to be read all right, and seem to be available as ARGS (including the "-L" etc).  My assessment it that the all arguments are interpreted as files to be loaded at startup, rather than just the one following -L. 

Would an option "--" make sense to separate the start up files from arguments to be passed to the script/sessions. 

[Stefan Karpinski]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 3:29 AM, David van Leeuwen <david.va...@gmail.com> wrote:

Would an option "--" make sense to separate the start up files from arguments to be passed to the script/sessions. 

Yes, this is the right solution. I've opened two related issues:

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/10226

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/10227