From: Jean Privat Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 02:03:18 +0000 (-0400) Subject: man: nit.md documents `-` X-Git-Url: http://nitlanguage.org man: nit.md documents `-` Signed-off-by: Jean Privat --- diff --git a/share/man/nit.md b/share/man/nit.md index 9503883..fcdec6c 100644 --- a/share/man/nit.md +++ b/share/man/nit.md @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ nit - interprets and debugs Nit programs. nit [*options*] FILE [ARG]... +nit [*options*] - [ARG]... + nit [*options*] -e COMMAND [ARG]... # DESCRIPTION @@ -16,6 +18,9 @@ It takes the main module of a program as the first argument then the options and $ nit examples/hello_world.nit hello world +If `-` is used instead of a module, then the program is read from the standard input. +The whole program is read before its interpretation starts. + The Nit interpreter is usable and valid as a *shebang* interpreted directive. It is however recommended to use with `/usr/bin/env` because the location of the executable is not standardized.