Use @__FILE__ in pasted code in REPL

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The macrocall @__FILE__ does not return the directory of the file, but rather the REPL output number

I have been using to following to change my working directory to the location of my .jl scripts in Atom as follows without problems: cd(dirname(@__FILE__)) When I run a script with this in vs code, I get an error and it doesn’t change my working directory: julia> cd(dirname(@__FILE__)) ERROR: IOError: chdir : invalid argument (EINVAL) Stacktrace: [1] uv_error at .\libuv.jl:97 [inlined] [2] cd(::String) at .\file.jl:84 [3] top-level scope at REPL[2]:1 The reason that is I think is because …

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