In Julia, a shell command is a semicolon away in the REPL: ;ls -al Plus, it borrows the backtick notation from Perl: run(`ls -al`) And you can read the stri

In Julia, a shell command is a semicolon away in the REPL: ;ls -al Plus, it borrows the backtick notation from Perl: run(`ls -al`) And you can read the string returned for processing further within Julia: x = readstring(`ls -al`) And it supports pipelines... http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/running-external-programs.html http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/running-external-...