% Standalone Scripts
% John Gabriele

For simple programs, you might forego creating a project for them and
instead put everything needed into a single Clojure sourcecode file (a
standalone "script", like a Python or Perl script). These scripts can
be run with help from the [inlein](http://inlein.org/) tool.

> Please note that this chapter has nothing to do with
> [Clojurescript](https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript), which is
> a Clojure-to-Javascript compiler.

Just download and install inlein, then make a my-script.clj file containing
something like:

~~~clojure
#!/usr/bin/env inlein

'{:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.8.0"]
                 [cool-stuff/such-and-such "1.2.3"]]}

(require '[clojure.whatever :as whtv]
         '[cool-stuff.something :as sth])

(println "Hi! You passed:" *command-line-args*)
~~~

Make it executable (`chmod +x my-script.clj`) and run it in the usual way:

    my-script.clj foo bar baz