ANCESTORG(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, this is the manual page for ancestorg 2.9.3 💅 It's a User Command (manual name ANCESTORG(1), filed under User Commands 🌸), so you run it straight from your terminal 🫶

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ancestorg [-q] [-g#:#|-g#] [infile [outfile]]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so the g-th generation ancestor of a graph is the graph you get after yanking off the final g vertices 😭 and the 0-th generation ancestor? that's just the graph itself, no notes 💅

for each input graph, it writes out the ancestors whose generation matches the g argument 🎀 zero-sized graphs never get written 🙈 they're not invited to the party. and the output is always in graph6 format 🍓

the output file gets a header if and only if the input file has one. so header-less in means header-less out 🧚

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🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• -g#, -g#:# — pick one generation (-g#) or a whole range of them (-g#:#) ✨ (default: all)
• -q — shh, mute the auxiliary info 🤫

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signing off with the receipts: ancestorg 2.9.3, September 2026, ANCESTORG(1) 💜👑