I am attempting to call xelatex from Julia’s run() function. For some reason I am getting a missing fonts error when running this from Julia. When running the same command (from the same location) in Windows cmd, the document builds fine. What could possibly be the difference between Julia’s shel…

Run Julia from a git bash. The environment settings should be sane(r).

The shell mode in the REPL isn’t really a shell. [image] Documentation for shell mode? New to Julia I really like the REPL’s shell mode (the thing you get after typing ;). But I struggle with understanding which features of my normal $SHELL are available, and which don’t …

If you NEED to run a Windows CMD process in Julia, using shell> cmd /c <cmd> instead of shell> <cmd> (for example) seems to solve a lot of problems. If you were to prefix each line of your .bat file with that, I wonder if you would have better luck?

OK, that did the trick! Actually it seems to work in other instances of Julia started from git bash or from cmd or from VS Code terminal. So just my current running session fails for some reason. Wish I could understand why, but I guess maybe some environment variable that is needed is set differ…

Julia shell and Windows shell (cmd) giving different result

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cormullion July 11, 2022, 3:23pm 2

The shell mode in the REPL isn’t really a shell.

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Julia shell and Windows shell (cmd) giving different result

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