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Lectures on scientific computing with python, as IPython notebooks.
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System commands are for UNIX machines, recommend supplemental file that describes how to make them work on Windows #33

Open cooknl opened 8 years ago

cooknl commented 8 years ago

UNIX system commands that show up in scientific-python-lectures and their Windows equivalents

PREFACE: The Windows "cmd" window is of limited utility. Powershell is a windows shell utility with a greater scripting language. To use Powershell from python as a magic, you can download and use powershellmagic

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/powershellmagic/0.1.0

Install as a Python package:

$ pip install powershellmagic

Use in IPython Notebooks

In [1]: %load_ext powershellmagic

UNIX ; WINDOWS

cat scripts/hello-world.py ; !type scripts/hello-world.py #for cmd window

or

%%powershell get-content scripts/hello-world.py

!head stockholm_td_adj.dat #There is no cmd window equivalent, !type will print the entire file ; %%powershell gc stockholm_td_adj.dat -TotalCount 3

!file random-matrix.npy ; !assoc random-matrix.npy #Not really equivalent to !file

!rm -f dprod.pyf ; %% powershell !rm -f dprod.pyf