cannot add a jar to scala repl with the :cp command - Stack Overflow

cannot add a jar to scala repl with the :cp command - Stack Overflow

Another way to get jar files imported, in this case by default, is to add links in $SCALA_HOME/lib to the jar files of interest. Then every time you enter REPL, such linked jars will be uploaded.

For instance, for poi-3.9-20121203.jar, consider

(cd $SCALA_HOME/lib && ln -s full_path_to_poi_jar/poi-3.9-20121203.jar)

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