System commands are for UNIX machines, recommend supplemental file that describes how to make them work on Windows

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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

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UNIX
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WINDOWS

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

or

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

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!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

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

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

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