Running a Common Lisp function from a Terminal command prompt

Question

I\'m having some difficulty finding an answer to this, so maybe it isn\'t possible. I\'d like the flexibility of being able to load/compile a lisp file from a command line,

Answer 1

The following is a paste from the first google result:

CLISP

If you're using the CLISP Common Lisp environment, the following applies.

To compile a program named test.lisp program into a bytecode file named test.fas, do the following.

clisp -c test.lisp

If you want less output to be shown, do the following instead.

clisp -q -c test.lisp

To run the compiled (or even uncompiled, if you skip the above step) Lisp file, do the following, assuming that your entry function is named main. Normally the result of the main function is shown when it's done, but the (quit) command prevents that. The -on-error abort option prevents clisp from dropping into a debugging prompt, and exits instead when there is an error.

clisp -q -q -on-error abort -x '(progn (load "test") (main) (quit))'

I just tested it on my arch linux terminal and you can do the following:

$ clisp myprogram.lisp

This will run the program right in the terminal. If you want to compile it to run later, see the above bit.