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date: 17 December 2021
section: 8
title: RPMLUA
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NAME
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rpmlua - RPM Lua interpreter

SYNOPSIS
========

**rpmlua** \[{**-e\|\--execute**} "**STATEMENT**"\] \[{**-i\|\--interactive**}\] \[*SCRIPT_FILE*\] \[arg1 ...\]

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.

**-i\|\--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\|\--execute**

: Execute a Lua statement before executing optional script.

EXAMPLES
========

Execute test.lua script file:

> rpmlua test.lua

Execute args.lua script file with option processing:

> rpmlua --opts=ab:c args.lua -- 1 2 3 -c -b5

Execute single statement to compare rpm versions:

> rpmlua -e "print(rpm.ver('1.0') < rpm.ver('2.0'))"

Run an interactive session:

> rpmlua -i

SEE ALSO
========

**lua**(1), **popt**(3), **getopt**(3), **rpm**(8)

**http://www.rpm.org/ \<URL:http://www.rpm.org/\>**

AUTHORS
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    Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>