GRAPHVIZ(7)

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🌸 GRAPHVIZ 💅

okay bestie, welcome to graphviz(7) from the Miscellaneous Information Manual, and no this is not a drill, this is the whole vibe of the graphviz package in one place 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

graphviz — a whole rich set of graph drawing tools. that's it, that's the name, iconic behavior fr fr 👑

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

This manpage has been written to fulfil the need of a centralized documentation presenting all available tools in the graphviz package.

like… the need for one (1) place where everything lives?? absolutely served 💖

🎀 AVAILABLE TOOLS 🎀

💫 Graph layout programs

  • dot — filter for hierarchical layouts of graphs
  • neato — filter for symmetric layouts of graphs
  • twopi — filter for radial layouts of graphs
  • circo — filter for circular layout of graphs
  • fdp — filter for symmetric layouts of graphs

All of the filters work with either directed or undirected graphs, though dot is typically used for directed graphs and neato for undirected graphs.

so like, they're all flexible okay?? but the typical pairing is dot + directed and neato + undirected. iykyk 💅

🦋 Graph layout enhancement

  • gvcolor — flow colors through a ranked digraph
  • unflatten — adjust directed graphs to improve layout aspect ratio
  • gvpack — merge and pack disjoint graphs

🌸 Graph information and transformation

  • gc — count graph components
  • acyclic — make directed graph acyclic
  • nop — pretty-print graph file
  • ccomps — connected components filter for graphs
  • sccmap — extract strongly connected components of directed graphs
  • tred — transitive reduction filter for directed graphs
  • dijkstra — single-source distance filter
  • bcomps — biconnected components filter for graphs
  • gvpr — graph pattern scanning and processing language
  • prune — prune directed graphs

⭐ Other

  • gxl2dot, dot2gxl — GXL-DOT converters

💜 AUTHOR 💜

This manual page was written by Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois@enst-bretagne.fr> in november 2006, based on an initial documentation effort by Joachim Berdal Haga <jbh@lupus.ig3.net>. It can be distributed under the same terms as the graphviz package.

and that's the whole page bestie!! 🎀 this little love letter to documentation dropped on November 19, 2006 and lives in the graphviz package, sitting pretty in section 7 of the Miscellaneous Information Manual. stan centralized docs, periodt 💖✨🦋

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