erl

Run and manage programs in the Erlang programming language. More information: https://www.erlang.org.

• 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