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The Untold Elixir Secret to find Beam file path of a Module

Malreddy Ankanna
1 min readOct 13, 2017

A simple trick to find Elixir Module Beam File.

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As we all know that, it is an executable file generated by the Erlang compiler. You can find any module beam by just typing following line in your iex shell.

iex> :code.which Tuple

This gives you a single quoted string literally called charlist in elixir . In my case, it looks like in the following screenshot…

Hope this helps you.

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Malreddy Ankanna
Malreddy Ankanna

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