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@@ -265,6 +265,20 @@ The available mode flags are:
Interactive mode, which is also available as :program:`ghci`. Interactive
mode is described in more detail in :ref:`ghci`.
+.. ghc-flag:: --run ⟨file⟩
+ :shortdesc: Run a Haskell program.
+ :type: mode
+ :category: modes
+
+ .. index::
+ single: run mode
+ single: GHCi
+
+ Run a script's ``main`` entry-point. Similar to ``runghc`` this will by
+ default use the bytecode interpreter. If the command-line contains a ``--``
+ argument then all arguments that follow will be passed to the script. All
+ arguments that precede ``--`` are interpreted as GHC arguments.
+
.. ghc-flag:: --make
:shortdesc: Build a multi-module Haskell program, automatically figuring out
dependencies. Likely to be much easier, and faster, than using