Dir failing in shell mode (Win, 1.0)

General Usage
1

Not a windows user, just doing some tests on the platform – but isn’t this supposed to work?

shell> dir
ERROR: IOError: could not spawn `dir`: no such file or directory (ENOENT)
Stacktrace:
 [1] _jl_spawn(::String, ::Array{String,1}, ::Cmd, ::Tuple{RawFD,RawFD,RawFD}) at .\process.jl:367
 [2] (::getfield(Base, Symbol("##495#496")){Cmd})(::Tuple{RawFD,RawFD,RawFD}) at .\process.jl:509
 [3] setup_stdio(::getfield(Base, Symbol("##495#496")){Cmd}, ::Tuple{RawFD,RawFD,RawFD}) at .\process.jl:490
 [4] #_spawn#494(::Nothing, ::Function, ::Cmd, ::Tuple{RawFD,RawFD,RawFD}) at .\process.jl:508
 [5] _spawn at .\process.jl:504 [inlined]
 [6] #run#505(::Bool, ::Function, ::Cmd) at .\process.jl:652
 [7] run at .\process.jl:651 [inlined]
 [8] repl_cmd(::Cmd, ::REPL.Terminals.TTYTerminal) at .\client.jl:77
 [9] top-level scope at none:0

Windows shell:

C:\Users\adrian>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is C662-906A

 Directory of C:\Users\adrian
# more output here

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.0.0
Commit 5d4eaca0c9 (2018-08-08 20:58 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6820HQ CPU @ 2.70GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-6.0.0 (ORCJIT, skylake)
2

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/23597

3

I see, thanks

4

Btw. it is not fully functional on Linux too:

shell> ls -la | grep a
ls: cannot access '|': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'grep': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'a': No such file or directory
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5

Just to share a solution if somebody like me search how to solve this issue:
docs.julialang Filesytem

Thanks @essenciary for your excellent book

6

Thank you :slight_smile: