BNF Syntax

BNF Syntax

This Wiki describes the GAM command line syntax in modified BNF, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus-Naur_Form Skip the History section and start reading at Introduction.

Items on the command line are space separated, when an actual space character is required, it will be indicated by <Space>. If an item contains spaces, it should be surrounded by ".

Metasyntactic symbols

[] optional item
() group items
* item may appear zero or more times
+ item may appear one or more times
| separates alternative items