start_embedded(1)

✨ start_embedded(1) ✨

okay bestie, this is a page from the Erlang Module Definition section of the manual, and it's a lil one but it's important, so let's get into it 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

start_embedded — it's an OTP start script example for Unix, and yes she's just an example but she's serving 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe: the start_embedded script is an example script that shows you how to start up the Erlang system in embedded mode on Unix. It's giving "here's how you'd do it, take notes" ✨

Want the full lore? Then go read the Embedded System User's Guide in System Documentation. That's where the real deep dive lives, no cap 📚

Here's how you actually call her:

start_embedded [ data_file ]

And the argument, bestie:

• data_file — Optional. This one specifies what start_erl.data file to use. That's it, that's the whole job 💅

Oh and heads up 👑 — you can set the environment variable RELDIR before you call this example, and it sets the directory where to find the release files. So like, set it first, then run. Order matters, periodt 🌟

💜 See Also 💜

• run_erl(1)
• start_erl(1)

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lowkey the whole point of this page is "this is an example, go read the guide" and honestly? valid 🙈

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 🎀 this one came to you from Ericsson AB, running erts 17.0.6 — so if anyone asks where you learned it, tell 'em the version, iykyk 💖🌈🦋