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guile — Guile Scheme interpreter. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/guile.html#In

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Problem

How to use the guile command: Guile Scheme interpreter. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/guile.html#Invoking-Guile>.

Solution

guile — Guile Scheme interpreter. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/guile.html#Invoking-Guile>.

Start a REPL (interactive shell):

guile

Execute the script in a given Scheme file:

guile {{script.scm}}

Execute a Scheme expression:

guile -c "{{expression}}"

Listen on a port or a Unix domain socket (the default is port 37146) for remote REPL connections:

guile --listen={{port_or_socket}}

Code Snippets

Start a REPL (interactive shell)

guile

Execute the script in a given Scheme file

guile {{script.scm}}

Execute a Scheme expression

guile -c "{{expression}}"

Listen on a port or a Unix domain socket (the default is port 37146) for remote REPL connections

guile --listen={{port_or_socket}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/guile

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