Elixir '-pa' command line options

Question

I am looking at Elixir code in a project where the script is running:

elixir -pa _build/<a directory with .beam files> -S  mix run -e "MyApp" --no-deps-check --no-compile --no-halt

I wonder what the flag means -pa. I could not find the help page or the help page for the elixir.

$ man elixir
No manual entry for elixir

Is there any online documentation for other command line options for elixir?

Answer 1

Run elixir --helpinstead man elixir(the help page for Elixir should appear sooner rather than later, see this pull request ). The output says:

...
-pa "path"        Prepends the given path to Erlang code path (*)
...

where *at the end it signals that this parameter can be transmitted more than once.