<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Running from Shell - SBCL 1.0.31 User Manual</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="SBCL 1.0.31 User Manual"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Starting-SBCL.html#Starting-SBCL" title="Starting SBCL"> <link rel="next" href="Running-from-Emacs.html#Running-from-Emacs" title="Running from Emacs"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- This manual is part of the SBCL software system. See the `README' file for more information. This manual is largely derived from the manual for the CMUCL system, which was produced at Carnegie Mellon University and later released into the public domain. This manual is in the public domain and is provided with absolutely no warranty. See the `COPYING' and `CREDITS' files for more information. --> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Running-from-Shell"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Running-from-Emacs.html#Running-from-Emacs">Running from Emacs</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Starting-SBCL.html#Starting-SBCL">Starting SBCL</a> <hr> </div> <!-- node-name, next, previous, up --> <h4 class="subsection">3.1.1 From Shell to Lisp</h4> <p>To run SBCL type <samp><span class="command">sbcl</span></samp> at the command line. <p>You should end up in the toplevel <dfn>REPL</dfn> (read, eval, print -loop), where you can interact with SBCL by typing expressions. <pre class="smallexample"> $ sbcl This is SBCL 0.8.13.60, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp. More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>. SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty. It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under BSD-style licenses. See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the distribution for more information. * (+ 2 2) 4 * (quit) $ </pre> <p>See also <a href="Command-Line-Options.html#Command-Line-Options">Command Line Options</a> and <a href="Stopping-SBCL.html#Stopping-SBCL">Stopping SBCL</a>. </body></html>