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

Debian                                           April 10, 2015                                           IEX(1)