I don’t understand the new behavior of the shell wrt quotation. Assuming that there are files in the current directory starting by img, how do I execute the following shell command from julia? $ ls -l img* The following returns an error because the files are not found. It seems that the wildca…

Julia commands are run directly, and not passed to a shell, so things like aliases, shell globbing, etc. will not work. You can use https://github.com/vtjnash/Glob.jl to get the globbing behavior without going through the shell.

Or use: julia> filter!(f -> startswith(f, "Sc"), readdir()) 6-element Array{String,1}: "Screen Shot 2017-08-28 at 12.33.44.png" "Screen Shot 2017-09-28 at 23.31.45.png" "Screen Shot 2017-09-28 at 23.43.44.jpg" "Screen Shot 2017-09-28 at 23.43.44.png" "Screen Shot 2017-09-28 at 23.43.46.png" "…

Ha, ok, so it looks like a major change. The following will do. julia> run(`bash -c 'ls -l img-*'`)

Major change since when? AFAIK globbing has never been supported in Cmd objects, and I just verified that the code you posted gives the same result in Julia v0.3, v0.4, v0.5, and v0.6.

Indeed. I must be confusing with the pipes.

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