NAME

     iex — The Elixir shell

SYNOPSIS

     iex [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

     The interactive shell is used for evaluation, debugging and introspection of the Elixir
     runtime system. It is also possible to use the program for testing the work of small pieces
     of code escaping the stage of saving the code in a file.

OPTIONS

     Note that many of the options mentioned here were borrowed from the Erlang shell, therefore
     erl(1) can be used as an additional source of information on the options.

     --dot-iex file
             Loads the specified file instead of .iex.exs (see the FILES section).

     --remsh node
             Connects to the specified node which was started with the --sname or --name options
             (see above).

     --      Separates the options passed to the compiler from the options passed to the executed
             code.

ENVIRONMENT

     ELIXIR_ERL_OPTIONS
             Allows passing parameters to the Erlang runtime.

FILES

     ~/.erlang.cookie
             Stores the magic cookie value which is used only when it wasn't specified via the
             option --cookie (see above).  If the file doesn't exist when a node starts, it will
             be created.

     .iex.exs
             After iex starts, it seeks the file .iex.exs and, in a case of success, executes the
             code from the file in the context of the shell. At first the search starts in the
             current working directory, then, if necessary, it continues in the home directory.

SEE ALSO

     elixir(1), elixirc(1), mix(1)

AUTHOR

     This manual page contributed by Evgeny Golyshev.

INTERNET RESOURCES

     Main website: http://elixir-lang.org

     Documentation: http://elixir-lang.org/docs.html

     General Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/group/elixir-lang-talk

     Development Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/group/elixir-lang-core