By impadmin, March 28, 2017 Posted in: Brew Install mac

Prcedure to install abnfgen

What is “abnfgen” Package?

Quickly generate random documents that match an ABFN grammar

Given an Augmented Backus-Naur form (ABNF) grammar (Wikipedia, RFC 4234), abnfgen quickly generates lots of random documents that match that grammar.

$ cat GRAMMAR
ring = 1*12("ding" SP) "dong" CRLF
$ ./abnfgen GRAMMAR
DInG DiNg doNg

For more details: http://www.quut.com/abnfgen/

Installation

  • Open Terminal by pressing command+space then type terminal and hit Enter key.
  • Install homebrew first. 
    ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null
  • Install abnfgen. 
    brew install abnfgen

Now, use abnfgen!

That’s useful for

  • verifying an ABNF grammar’s syntactical correctness
  • illustrating a grammar with non-obvious examples
  • testing software that is supposed to consume documents described by a grammar

The tool is in alpha and, while copyrighted, free for any use.