C:\Users\joaqu\zzz>julia -e "using Pkg; Pkg.activate(".")" ERROR: syntax: invalid identifier name "." Stacktrace: [1] top-level scope but no problem on Linux j@Marilu:~/aaa$ julia -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.activate(".");' Activating new project at `~/aaa`

[image] joa-quim: julia -e "using Pkg; Pkg.activate(".")" Since you use the same quotes both around and inside the string in this case it looks like your shell interprets this as executing the code using Pkg; Pkg.activate(.). You would get the same error trying that exact code in Bash too. Pe…

Thanks, That is it. I had tried all variations I could think of for julia -e \"...\", julia -e ' ...', ``julia -e ` …``` but missed the obvious solution. Strange that this has not shown up yet (that I remember or could find with search)

There was a related question recently: [image] How to interpolate into the `julia -c` shell command General Usage The standard solution is to quote variables (which you should always do anyway), not to hack IFS: julia -e "${code}"

That’s not entirely related: the problem here was that the code was quoted incorrectly.

For reference, the bit of code I posted is part of a GH action to build a Franklin site and I was trying to make it work from Windows.

I’m pretty sure that syntax is wrong also in bash and all other Unix shells I know.

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