TAB2GRAPH(1)

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version 1.6.5 · 5 versions
, in epel 9

💅 TAB2GRAPH 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to tab2graph — a little Perl script from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual, and we are literally about to turn your boring spreadsheet vibes into a whole graph. yes. a graph. i'm obsessed already. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

tab2graph — turn tabular data into a graph. that's it. that's the whole pitch. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

so you run it like this, periodt:

tab2graph [options] file.tab

and here are all the options, no skips, no gaps, we're doing the whole list because i love you:

  • -c, --color — adds some color to the output, which, yes ma'am 🌈 (the default is white, so sad, so plain).
  • -d, --directed — makes the graph directed. default is not directed, so like, keep that in mind bestie.
  • -l, --layout — picks the GraphViz layout. your choices are dot, neato, twopi, circo, and fdp. and the default? circo. iconic choice honestly.
  • -f, --fields — restricts it to a set of fields in the first row. you're in charge of what gets shown 💅
  • -n, --numbers — shows the numbers. default is not showing them, so if you want the numbers you gotta ask, iykyk.
  • -o, --out — name of the output file. default is STDOUT, aka it just prints at you.
  • --format — the output format. default is PNG 🖼️
  • --fs=x — use x as the field separator. default is tab.
  • --rs=x — use x as the record separator. default is newline.
  • --help — shows a brief help message and quits. short and sweet 🎀
  • --man — shows the full documentation. that's this. hi. you're here. 🫶

🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

so what it does is: turns tabular data into a graph, using GraphViz. that's the whole thing. and per the manpage itself: this may or may not be useful. 😭 no cap, that's the actual disclaimer. the tool is out here with main character energy and zero promises. we respect it.

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

go look at these too, they're the supporting cast:

  • Text::RecordParser
  • GraphViz

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Ken Youens-Clark <kclark@cpan.org>. thank you ken, legend behavior. 🫡

Copyright (C) 2009-10 Ken Youens-Clark. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

🚨 bestie read that again: no warranty, fr fr. it's GPL v2, it's free software, but it comes with absolutely zero promises. don't come for ken if your graph looks wild. 💀

and that's the whole page! this one's from perl v5.32.1, dated 2022-06-01 — so like, a little vintage, but she still slays. go make some graphs, bestie. 💖✨

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