# Documentation for shell mode?

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**Created:** [February 18, 2021, 5:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/documentation-for-shell-mode/55564 "2021-02-18T17:47:45Z")\
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Julia shell is not really using \*your shell. In fact, it’s not running a shell at all, for example, `ls *` doesn’t work because `*` is expanded by shell program (bash, zsh) and Julia is not using any of them.

you can, however, run `zsh` as the first thing at `shell >` and that will drop you into your zsh. But I don’t think that is a particularly useful workflow, you might as well just `Ctrl-Z` the Julia instead

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