erl

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Run and manage programs in the Erlang programming language.

Examples (3)

Compile and run sequential Erlang program as a common script and then exit

erlc path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ... && erl -noshell 'mymodule:myfunction(arguments), init:stop().'

Connect to a running Erlang node

erl -remsh nodename@hostname -sname custom_shortname -hidden -setcookie cookie_of_remote_node

Tell the Erlang shell to load modules from a directory

erl -pa path/to/directory_with_beam_files