Startup options and Julia scripts
Without any options, the julia
command starts up the REPL environment. A useful option to check your environment is julia –v
. This shows Julia's version, for example, julia-version 0.3.2+2
. (The versioninfo()
function in REPL is more detailed, the VERSION
constant gives you only the version number: v"0.3.2+2"
). An option that lets you evaluate expressions on the command line itself is –e
, for example:
julia -e 'a = 6 * 7; println(a)'
The preceding commands print out 42
(on Windows, use "
instead of the '
character).
Some other options useful for parallel processing will be discussed in Chapter 9, Running External Programs. Type julia –h
for a list of all options.
A script.jl
file with Julia source code can be started ...
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