Running Scripts

After you've written a script file, for example script-name.luau, you can run it:

lune script-name

This will look for the file script-name.luau[1] in a few locations:

• The current directory

• The folder lune in the current directory, if it exists

• The folder .lune in the current directory, if it exists

🎛️ Passing Command-Line Arguments

Arguments can be passed to a Lune script directory from the command line when running it:

lune script-name arg1 arg2 "argument three"

These arguments will then be available in your script using process.args:

print(process.args)
--> { "arg1", "arg2", "argument three" }

💭 Additional Commands

lune --list

Lists all scripts found in lune or .lune directories, including any top-level description comments. Lune description comments are always written at the top of a file and start with a lua-style comment arrow (-->).

lune -

Runs a script passed to Lune using stdin. Occasionally useful for running scripts piped to Lune from external sources.

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[1] Lune also supports files with the .lua extension but using the .luau extension is highly recommended. Additionally, if you don't want Lune to look in sub-directories or try to find files with .lua / .luau extensions at all, you can provide an absolute file path. This will disable all file path parsing and checks, and just run the file directly.