# Quoting in shell commands

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/quoting-in-shell-commands/6781>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** shell\
**Created:** [October 30, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/quoting-in-shell-commands/6781 "2017-10-30T17:04:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![harven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@harven](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/harven)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/quoting-in-shell-commands/6781/4 "2017-10-30T18:03:54Z")

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Ha, ok, so it looks like a major change. The following will do.

```
  julia> run(`bash -c 'ls -l img-*'`)

```

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