FYI one of the things I like about Julia is that it also can execute shell commands via backquote syntax, in a very nice way (e.g. interpolating arrays just wor

FYI one of the things I like about Julia is that it also can execute shell commands via backquote syntax, in a very nice way (e.g. interpolating arrays just works). E.g. try files = split(read(`ls`, String)) firsttwo = files[1:2] run(`ls -l $firsttwo`) and this does the right thing even if you have a filename with spaces in it. or this