RPMLUA(1)

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👑 rpmlua — the RPM Lua interpreter, bestie edition 💅

okay so real talk: this is the manual page for rpmlua, aka section 1 of the General Commands Manual, and it's literally your backstage pass to the Lua interpreter that lives inside RPM. she's giving "tiny tool, main character energy" ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

rpmlua — the RPM Lua interpreter 🐍✨

💖 SYNOPSIS 💖

rpmlua [options] [LUA_SCRIPT] [-- ARG ...]

like, that's the whole vibe. options first, then maybe a script, then -- and whatever args you wanna yeet at it 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

She runs the RPM internal Lua interpreter. that's it, that's the job 💅

not me dropping the most important lore rn: indexes start at 1 in Lua, so the program name is at arg[1] instead of the more customary index zero. yes bestie, it's off-by-one from what you'd expect — that's just how Lua does it, no cap 😭

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • LUA SCRIPT — the Lua script, obviously. your moment to shine 🌟
  • ARG — options and arguments that get passed along to SCRIPT_FILE. and heads up: rpmlua stops processing at --, so everything after that divider belongs to your script, not to rpmlua 🙈

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -i, --interactive — run an interactive session after executing the optional script or statement. so you can do your thing and then keep the conversation going 🫶
  • --opts=OPTSTRING — do getopt(3) option processing on the passed arguments, according to OPTSTRING. yes, actual getopt energy. iconic 🧚
  • -e "STATEMENT", --execute "STATEMENT" — execute a Lua statement before executing the optional script. little pregame statement, love that for you 💜

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

On success you get 0. anything else is a nonzero failure code — so if the shell is being dramatic, that's your cue 🔥

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Run a script file. simple. elegant. slay:

rpmlua test.lua

Execute test.lua with option processing going on — look at her multitasking:

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

One single statement to compare rpm versions, no script file needed:

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

And the one where you just wanna vibe in a REPL:

rpmlua -i

🍓 SEE ALSO 🍓

and that's the whole page, bestie — written for RPM 6.1.0, dated 2026-08-20, and yeah the manual itself is literally named RPMLUA(1). go forth and interpret some Lua 💜✨

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