# Running julia from a shell

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/running-julia-from-a-shell/36395>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [March 23, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/running-julia-from-a-shell/36395 "2020-03-23T15:24:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![KajWiik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kajwiik/32/199_2.png) [@KajWiik](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/KajWiik)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 5:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/running-julia-from-a-shell/36395/2 "2020-03-23T17:14:59Z")

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Typically clusters have shared disks, so you can install julia somewhere in home directory and make a soft link to a directory that is in your PATH, e.g. ~/bin. The following may help (with follow-ups):

> [@Start Julia via SLURM batch script on remote node](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/start-julia-via-slurm-batch-script-on-remote-node/33885/3):
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> Here’s how I set up Julia in a cluster, this also sets up CUDA but you can ignore that.

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