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

UPDATE

The means for extracting :sh output has changed over the years.

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scala> :sh date
res0: scala.tools.nsc.interpreter.ProcessResult = `date` (1 lines, exit 0)

scala> res0 foreach println
:13: error: value foreach is not a member of scala.tools.nsc.interpreter.ProcessResult
       res0 foreach println
            ^

scala> res0.show
:13: error: value show is not a member of scala.tools.nsc.interpreter.ProcessResult
       res0.show
            ^

scala> res0.lines
res3: List[String] = List(Sat Sep 17 19:29:26 PDT 2016)