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From inside the interative Julia shell (also known as REPL), you can access the system's shell by typing ; right after the prompt: shell> From here on, you can type any shell comand and they will be run from inside the REPL: shell> ls Desktop Documents Pictures Templates Downloa...

Julia code can create, manipulate, and execute command literals, which execute in the OS's system environment. This is powerful but often makes programs less portable. A command literal can be created using the `` literal. Information can be interpolated using the $ interpolation syntax, as with st...