# How to start Julia REPL with a command?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-start-julia-repl-with-a-command/4892
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [July 17, 2017, 4:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-start-julia-repl-with-a-command/4892 "2017-07-17T04:35:30Z")
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### Author:  [@djsegal](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/djsegal)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2017, 4:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-start-julia-repl-with-a-command/4892/1 "2017-07-17T04:35:30Z")
How do you start the Julia REPL with a command?
This would be equivalent to how adding code to `.juliarc.jl` works (but without having any permenance to it)
One way I thought of doing was to:
- make a scratch file and
- then load it using `julia ~/.../scratch.jl`
This just seems kind of hacky, though.
* * *
Use case:
I want to be able to do:
```julia
> julia | "using DataStructures"
```
// but the DataStructures is just an example and it changes frequently
(also, that’s just pseudo-code)
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### Author:  [@Evey](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Evey)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2017, 5:39am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-start-julia-repl-with-a-command/4892/2 "2017-07-17T05:39:53Z")
I think `$ julia -ie "using DataStructures"` does what you want? `-i` starts the REPL interactively and `-e` evaluates the code. 🙂
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### Author:  [@djsegal](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/djsegal)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2017, 5:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-start-julia-repl-with-a-command/4892/3 "2017-07-17T05:49:16Z")
Thanks!
// for the curious, this got used in a new [Julz command](https://github.com/djsegal/Julz.jl/commit/d44ab16a5e862df2291ab98ea44878c353c67040)