Snippets are tiny notes I've collected for easy reference.
Quickly render a 'dot' (Graphviz) graph
On Linux and OSX the command:
dot -Txlib mygraph.gv
will quickly launch a lightweight window containing a dot
rendering of the graph in mygraph.gv
.
The rendering should automatically refresh when mygraph.gv
is updated. (I've occasionally run into small glitches with this that force me to re-launch the window, but they are rare and obvious.)
The same -Txlib
parameter works for the other Graphviz rendering engines, including neato
, twopi
, fdp
, sfdp
, circo
, and patchwork
.
Published 1 Jan 2014
Snippets are tiny notes I've collected for easy reference.