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Lua as shell command

Add these two lines at the top of your lua source code at the
file can be executed by either lua or a unix shell.

#!/bin/sh
_=[[ exec lua "$0" "$@" ]]
print("Running", _VERSION)
print("Options", ...)

Source: http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2015-01/msg00633.html.