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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



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