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Run Daffodil from the Command Line/Terminal

Windows

Install and Configure Cygwin to Run Daffodil

In the Windows Command Line (cmd.exe), CD to the root of your local DFDL repository.  Default is likely "C:\Users\UserName\git\dfdl".

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The script is created in daffodil-core/target/start

In Cygwin:

To execute daffodil:

$ .\daffodil-cli\target\start.bat <options>

To determine the usage, execute the script with the --help option

$ .\daffodil-cli\target\start.bat --help

The result of the above command should display several help options for the daffodil program.  If it doesn't, please make sure that you've followed all of the previous steps.From Cygwin, try this:

$ .\daffodil-cli\target\start.bat parse -s daffodil-test-ibm1\src\test\resources\test-suite\tresys-contributed\AB.dfdl.xsd daffodil-test-ibm1\src\test\resources\test-suite\tresys-contributed\AB006.in

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