You are running afoul of shell escaping rules <http://www.grymoire.com/unix/Quote.html>. This should work:
julia -e 'using DataFrames; df = readtable("somefile.txt", header=false, separator='\'' '\''); println(df[1,1])' On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 4:28 PM, <adrian.viehwe...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Dear Julia community, > > I am trying to open a .txt file to process it with Julia like so: > > julia -e 'using DataFrames; df = readtable("somefile.txt", header=false, > separator=' '); println(df[1,1])' > > I get: > > ERROR: syntax: incomplete: premature end of input > > probably because in trying to specify the separator I use ' > > Is there a way around this? > > Thanks a lot! > Adrian >