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erl — Run and manage programs in the Erlang programming language. More information: <https://erlang.org/do

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Problem

How to use the erl command: Run and manage programs in the Erlang programming language. More information: <https://erlang.org/documentation/doc-16.0/erts-16.0/doc/html/erl_cmd.html>.

Solution

erl — Run and manage programs in the Erlang programming language. More information: <https://erlang.org/documentation/doc-16.0/erts-16.0/doc/html/erl_cmd.html>.

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}}

Code Snippets

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}}

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tldr-pages: common/erl

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