About the edktool Command-Line Tool

The edktool command-line tool for Eduction allows you to compile and test your grammars. You can use edktool to:

  • compile grammars.
  • list available entities in a grammar file.
  • extract entities from a file based on a grammar and select entities from the grammar for extraction.
  • test the accuracy of the extraction process.

NOTE: On Linux, edktool requires the C++ library, libstdc++.so. To ensure the tool can locate the required library, set the Library Path:

setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH bin:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

For a full list of the command-line options that you can use with edktool, see edktool Command-Line Options.