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/usr/bin/luac5.4

Powerful light-weight programming language

From lua5.4 5.4.9-r2 (os), captured 2026-11-05 by running luac5.4 --help (exit 1). permalink

/usr/bin/luac5.4: unrecognized option '--help'
usage: /usr/bin/luac5.4 [options] [filenames]
Available options are:
  -l       list (use -l -l for full listing)
  -o name  output to file 'name' (default is "luac.out")
  -p       parse only
  -s       strip debug information
  -v       show version information
  --       stop handling options
  -        stop handling options and process stdin
Options (5)
OptionDescriptionSource
-llist (use -l -l for full listing)help
-o nameoutput to file 'name' (default is "luac.out")help
-pparse onlyhelp
-sstrip debug informationhelp
-vshow version informationhelp

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