showtree(1)

✨ showtree — like, the manual page bestie 💖

okay so this is showtree(1), straight out of the General Commands Manual, and it's literally the tool that lets you look at and/or convert phylogenetic trees right in your terminal. no GUI, no drama, just vibes and trees. 🌳✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

showtree — View and/or convert phylogenetic trees in the terminal. 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

showtree [OPTIONS] [treefile]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

View and/or convert phylogenetic trees in the terminal. that's the whole thing, that's the job, and it ate. 👑

treefile is the filename of the for the file containing trees in PRIME format. (yes bestie, the original says "of the for the" — we don't gatekeep, we just pass it along fr fr 😭)

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --help — Display help (this text). the classic "help me help you" moment 🫶
• -V, --version — Print version and exit. short and iconic, just like her 💅
• -e, --show-edgetimes — Show edge times ⏰
• -n, -show-nodetimes — Show node times 🕐
• -b, --show-edgeweights — Show edge weights (i.e. branch lengths) ⚖️
• -x, --show-tot-edgetime — Show total edge time instead of tree. like, the sum, the whole vibe, not the tree 🌈
• -y, --show-tot-edgeweight — Show total edge weight instead of tree 🔥
• -c, --read-edge-times-after-colon — Read edge times after colon. the colon is the moment, ok? : ✨
• -p, --convert-and-output-tree-in-prime-format — Convert and output tree in PRIME format 💜
• -i, --show-id — Show ID (only valid together with -p). so like, don't use it alone bestie, it needs -p as its plus-one 🙈
• -S, --read-tree-from-stdin — Read tree from STDIN (no <treefile> nor <tree> needed) 📥
• -f, --format asciidrawing|prime|newick|simplenewick — The output format. Default is asciidrawing. Output formats:
  • newick — convert and output tree in NEWICK format
  • simplenewick — Simple newick format, no branch lengths. This also enables reading of unbalanced trees. (unbalanced trees, we love a chaotic queen 💀)
  • prime — prime format
  • asciidrawing — an ascii drawing 🎨
• -t, --tree-number — Use the tree with this number. If not set all trees will be printed out.
• -t, --tree-number — Use the tree with this number. If not set all trees will be printed out.

not me noticing -t, --tree-number is listed twice in the original. we keep both, we don't question it, we simply respect the lore 🤷‍♀️💖

🌈 EXIT STATUS 🌈

• 0 — Successful program execution. slay, she did it 💅✨
• 1 — Some error occurred 😭

🔗 URL 🔗

The prime-phylo home page: http://prime.sbc.su.se — go say hi, bestie 🌐

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

primeDTLSR(1), primeDLRS(1), primeGEM(1), chainsaw(1), reconcile(1), reroot(1), tree2leafnames(1), treesize(1)

like a whole friend group of utilities, periodt 🫶

okay and one last thing before you go — this whole page is prime-phylo 1.0.11, dated 13 Mar, 2012. yes she's vintage, yes she's still iconic, no cap. now go draw yourself a tree bestie 🌳💖🧚✨