Command-line tool

erlang

brew/erlang

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Programming language for highly scalable real-time systems programming-language erlang otp

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Windows, macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

winget install --id Erlang.ErlangOTP -e
scoop install erlang

macOS

brew install erlang

Linux

brew install erlang

Compile and run sequential Erlang program as a common script and then exit

erlc path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ... && erl -noshell 'mymodule:myfunction(arguments), init:stop().'

Connect to a running Erlang node

erl -remsh nodename@hostname -sname custom_shortname -hidden -setcookie cookie_of_remote_node

Tell the Erlang shell to load modules from a directory

erl -pa path/to/directory_with_beam_files

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