# An easy way to access files/folders/directories with Julia in command line based on language: batch-script

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**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Created:** [April 23, 2022, 4:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-easy-way-to-access-files-folders-directories-with-julia-in-command-line-based-on-language-batch-script/79873 "2022-04-23T04:15:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sukera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sukera](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Sukera)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2022, 6:40am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/an-easy-way-to-access-files-folders-directories-with-julia-in-command-line-based-on-language-batch-script/79873/2 "2022-04-23T06:40:44Z")

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> [@PSA: Julia is not at that stage of development anymore](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-julia-is-not-at-that-stage-of-development-anymore/44872):
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> You heard about this brand new exciting programming language called Julia and have some suggestions for how it should work. Wonderful! We’re happy to have you here and help you learn the language and listen to your ideas! However, please be aware that “new” is a relative term. Yes, Julia is newer than, say, C, which was first created in 1972 and standardized in 1989. It is not, however, new in the sense that it is still being freely designed and changed in arbitrary ways. Julia development start…

Commandline switches are a somewhat expensive commodity to maintain, so I’m doubtful this would be sufficient for such a large change. It would also be breaking, as e.g. `julia> "/home/JuliaUser/Projects/julia"` already has the meaning of just returning the string in the REPL. Julia is not a shell after all.

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