This needs to be built from the top makefile, for example : make dev/flags/flags Then the executable is usable either one value at a time from the command line, either with values coming from stdin with "-" passed alone instead of the value. It is possible to restrict the decoding to certain fields only by specifying one of "ana", "chn", "conn", "cs", "si", "sierr", "strm", "task", or "txn" before the value.