NOP(1)

💅 NOP(1) — it's giving "General Commands Manual" ✨

okay so bestie, meet nop — a lil command from section 1 of the general commands manual, and no, it is not a "do nothing" joke, I promise 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

nop — pretty-print graph file 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

nop [ -p? ] [ files ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe: nop reads a whole stream of graphs, and then it prints each one back out in pretty-printed (canonical) format on stdout. it's a glow-up, basically — your graphs go in messy and come out iconic ✨

and if you don't hand it any files? no worries, it just reads from stdin. lowkey the most chill input handling ever 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

the following options are supported, and there are literally only two of them, so you have zero excuse:

• -p — produces no output — it just checks the input to make sure it's valid DOT. it's the vibe check option 💀 you get nothing back except the truth.
• -? — prints usage information. the "bestie what do I even type" option 🙈

👑 EXIT STATUS 👑

so like, if any errors happened while processing any input — think: a file not found, or a file containing illegal DOT — then EXIT_FAILURE is returned. 😭

otherwise, EXIT_SUCCESS is returned. periodt. 💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go be nosy, these are all your new besties:

• wc(1)
• acyclic(1)
• gvpr(1)
• gvcolor(1)
• ccomps(1)
• sccmap(1)
• tred(1)
• libgraph(3)

fr fr, that's the whole page. no cap, that's it. 🧚

and that's a wrap on 21 March 2001 — the date this whole iconic little manual page was written, from the General Commands Manual, section 1. slay, stay pretty-printed, and drink some water 💜🍓