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/usr/bin/lua-5.5

Powerful light-weight programming language

From lua-5.5 5.5.1-r0 (os), captured 2026-11-07 by running lua-5.5 --help (exit 1). permalink

/usr/bin/lua-5.5: unrecognized option '--help'
usage: /usr/bin/lua-5.5 [options] [script [args]]
Available options are:
  -e stat   execute string 'stat'
  -i        enter interactive mode after executing 'script'
  -l mod    require library 'mod' into global 'mod'
  -l g=mod  require library 'mod' into global 'g'
  -v        show version information
  -E        ignore environment variables
  -W        turn warnings on
  --        stop handling options
  -         stop handling options and execute stdin
Options (6)
OptionDescriptionSource
-e statexecute string 'stat'help
-ienter interactive mode after executing 'script'help
-l modrequire library 'mod' into global 'mod'help
-vshow version informationhelp
-Eignore environment variableshelp
-Wturn warnings onhelp

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