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Long and Short Forms


Table 4.1: Command Line Arguments.
SHORT FORM LONG FORM NOTES
-h --help Print options to stdout.
-v --version Print version of Babel.
-tform --text=form Generate text.
-x --xml Deprecated. Generate XML.
-clang --client=lang Generate client classes.
-slang --server=lang Generate server and client classes.
-p --parse-check Only check parsing of the SIDL file.
  --generate-sidl-stdlib Regenerate the Babel runtime library.
-odir --output-directory=dir Root directory to contain generated files.
-g --generate-subdirs Generate sources in directory tree matching
    SIDL packaging.
-Rpath --output-directory=path Use specified XML repository(ies) to resolve
    symbols.
-eregex --exclude=regex Do not generate output for matching symbol(s).
  --no-default-repository Do not use the default repository to resolve
    symbols.
  --suppress-timestamp Suppress time-related metadata generation.
  --comment-local-only Reduce doc comments in C stub header.

So far, we've shown described the long forms of command line arguments, starting with two hyphens ``--''. There are also short forms for many of the more frequently used commands. See Table 4.1 for details.


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