I was playing around with different ways of running my Elixir code from file and noticed that I cannot find any info regarding the iex -S mix command. Can someone point me to a link or a way of getting that info from iex help directly?

$ iex --help ... It accepts all other options listed by "elixir --help". $ elixir --help ## General options -S SCRIPT Finds and executes the given script in $PATH So you know that it’s running a mix is a script which is in your $PATH. Inspecting the script reveals it to be t…

iex accepts the same options as elixir, + some… You can get them with $ iex --help $ elixir --help Usage: elixir [options] [.exs file] [data] ## General options -e "COMMAND" Evaluates the given command (*) -h, --help Prints this message (standalone) -r "FI…

I found the commit where iex -S mix was introduced, which explains some of the history: Provide iex -S mix instead of mix iex committed 07:23PM - 20 Jan 13 UTC (UTC) [josevalim] josevalim …

Where to find info about `iex -S mix` command?

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adamu May 29, 2022, 2:48pm 4

I found the commit where iex -S mix was introduced, which explains some of the history:

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