# Julia -L invocation equivalent to julia -e (for CI)

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-l-invocation-equivalent-to-julia-e-for-ci/2982
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [March 31, 2017, 7:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-l-invocation-equivalent-to-julia-e-for-ci/2982 "2017-03-31T07:47:13Z")
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### Author: ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2017, 7:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-l-invocation-equivalent-to-julia-e-for-ci/2982/1 "2017-03-31T07:47:13Z")

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My `script` line in `.travis.yml` is getting too long (checking out master versions, unregistered packages, etc). I would like to replace

```bash
julia -e 'tons of stuff'

```

with

```bash
julia -L test-script.jl

```

and move all the commands to the above script. However, once the tests terminate, the prompt is just waiting. How should I end it? I thought of `exit(0)`, but I am unsure how test results are communicated to the caller, would this be OK?

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### Author: ![avik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/avik/32/17_2.png) [@avik](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/avik)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2017, 9:04am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-l-invocation-equivalent-to-julia-e-for-ci/2982/2 "2017-03-31T09:04:46Z")

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`julia -e include("test-script.jl")`  
?

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### Author: ![vchuravy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/vchuravy/32/8_2.png) [@vchuravy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vchuravy)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2017, 10:46am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-l-invocation-equivalent-to-julia-e-for-ci/2982/3 "2017-03-31T10:46:17Z")

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How about `julia test-script.jl`?