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ape4 · 2019-11-30 16:34:36+00:00

Can you do this on the command line with regular graphviz?

masklinn | karma 65147 | avg karma 3.36 · | 2019-11-30 16:35:21+00:00

Not with graphviz but it calls to a Perl package called graph-easy which provides a command-line utility. So you could install and use that.

marton78 | karma 927 | avg karma 2.73 · | 2019-07-19 06:23:57+00:00

This uses Graphviz

mooneater | karma 1583 | avg karma 2.83 · | 2021-03-01 16:43:38+00:00

like graphviz does

megous | karma 7536 | avg karma 1.9 · | 2017-03-07 15:17:38+00:00

I'm using graphviz for that.

emmelaich | karma 6824 | avg karma 1.64 · | 2020-06-06 00:36:57

Can I use this to do some of what Graphviz does?

Because I like Graphviz but the results are never beautiful.

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__d | karma 1950 | avg karma 2.12 · | 2021-11-29 16:37:18

If graphviz (per rlw101's comment) doesn't work,

maybe pic? (from groff)

or a few macros (maybe m4) and fig? (with fig2dev)

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RiderOfGiraffes | karma 22823 | avg karma 3.85 · | 2009-12-13 19:08:17+00:00

Part of the GraphViz package.

tmaly | karma 3852 | avg karma 0.95 · | 2024-02-24 21:27:36

It you have the data, it can be accomplished pretty easily with Graphviz, an open source graphing tool.

steve-s | karma 14 | avg karma 2.0 · | 2019-11-12 22:25:04

GraphViz?

waynenilsen | karma 451 | avg karma 3.05 · | 2019-05-29 09:41:06+00:00

See graphviz

thomas536 | karma 42 | avg karma 0.88 · | 2020-01-25 19:02:29

Graphviz is a solid tool for this sort of thing

mLuby | karma 4402 | avg karma 3.09 · | 2023-01-02 19:16:25

Oh cool, didn't know it could do that so easily. GraphViz is really something.

terminlvelocity | karma 5 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2017-12-19 19:40:58

I built a tool for generating graphviz graphs at http://dottask.mattboehm.rocks .

Once you get used to the controls, it's very quick and has a ton of useful features (including export to dot so that you can further customize things.)

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pcmonk | karma 1463 | avg karma 5.34 · | 2014-04-01 18:22:48

I've seen DOT/GraphViz before, but I think its complexity put me off a bit. I'll give it another shot.

The other tools have promise as well.

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creative-coder | karma 9 | avg karma 0.6 · | 2019-12-19 14:52:27+00:00

Wow, looks useful online extension of Graphviz.. Thanks for sharing :)

undershirt | karma 1510 | avg karma 4.19 · | 2022-01-18 15:59:11

that's it, thank you! i suppose graphviz will have this eventually

kapep | karma 299 | avg karma 2.51 · | 2020-05-11 12:03:42+00:00

Yes it does. I often use draw.io. I've heard of graphviz but never looked into it. I found the original comment very useful because now I know:

- draw.io and graphviz have similar use cases (otherwise it wouldn't have been mentioned)

- Both have VS code plugins

- graphviz is a more structured language

- graphviz is more mature

- graphviz can be used from command line

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domoritz | karma 710 | avg karma 4.67 · | 2018-03-23 04:46:42+00:00

As far as I know, yes. Or use the wasm version of graphviz.

philsnow | karma 4551 | avg karma 2.16 · | 2017-01-06 07:12:06+00:00

I use graphviz, https://github.com/anaynayak/aws-security-viz, and xdot.py somewhat regularly to mechanically generate pretty graphs of things like connectivity between EC2 security groups.

It's wonderful and I love being able to use my $EDITOR / awk / sed / etc to manipulate the results.

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