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mingle — Bundle the edges of a graph layout. Graphviz filters: `acyclic`, `bcomps`, `comps`, `edgepaint`, `gv

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Problem

How to use the mingle command: Bundle the edges of a graph layout. Graphviz filters: acyclic, bcomps, comps, edgepaint, gvcolor, gvpack, mingle, nop, sccmap, tred, and unflatten. More information: <https://www.graphviz.org/pdf/mingle.1.pdf>.

Solution

mingle — Bundle the edges of a graph layout. Graphviz filters: acyclic, bcomps, comps, edgepaint, gvcolor, gvpack, mingle, nop, sccmap, tred, and unflatten. More information: <https://www.graphviz.org/pdf/mingle.1.pdf>.

Bundle the edges of one or more graph layouts (that already have layout information):

mingle {{path/to/layout1.gv path/to/layout2.gv ...}} > {{path/to/output.gv}}

Perform layout, bundling, and output to a picture with one command:

dot {{path/to/input.gv}} | mingle | dot -T {{png}} > {{path/to/output.png}}

Display help:

mingle -?

Code Snippets

Bundle the edges of one or more graph layouts (that already have layout information)

mingle {{path/to/layout1.gv path/to/layout2.gv ...}} > {{path/to/output.gv}}

Perform layout, bundling, and output to a picture with one command

dot {{path/to/input.gv}} | mingle | dot -T {{png}} > {{path/to/output.png}}

Display help

mingle -?

Context

tldr-pages: common/mingle

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