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RPM Lua interpreter
Synopsis
rpmlua [options] [LUA_SCRIPT] [-- ARG ...]
Description
Run RPM internal Lua interpreter.
Note: indexes start at 1 in Lua, so the program name is at arg[1] instead of the more customary index zero.
Arguments
- LUA SCRIPT
A Lua script.
- ARG
Options and arguments to be passed to SCRIPT_FILE. rpmlua stops processing at --.
Options
- -i, ā--interactive
Run an interactive session after executing optional script or statement.
- --opts=OPTSTRING
Perform getopt(3) option processing on the passed arguments according to OPTSTRING.
- -e "STATEMENT", --execute "STATEMENT"
Execute a Lua statement before executing optional script.
Exit Status
On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.
Examples
- rpmlua test.lua
Execute test.lua script file.
- rpmlua --opts=ab:c args.lua -- 1 2 3 -c -b5
Execute args.lua script file with option processing.
- rpmlua -e "print(rpm.ver('1.0') < rpm.ver('2.0'))"
Execute single statement to compare rpm versions.
- rpmlua -i
Run an interactive session.
See Also
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2025-04-17