Executing shell commands from Scala REPL

Question

An interesting feature of Scala REPL is if you drop any jar in your %SCALA_HOME%\\lib directory, it is available for import from the REPL. I have several jars t

Answer 1

Alternative: use Scala's sys.process library:

scala> import sys.process._
import sys.process._

scala> "ls /home/dcs/scala-2.9.1.final".!
bin
doc
lib
man
meta
misc
src
res1: Int = 0