neato: render an image of a linear undirected network graph from a graphviz file

What is neato? 🔗

Render an image of a linear undirected network graph from a graphviz file.

Layouts: dot, neato, twopi, circo, fdp, sfdp, osage & patchwork.

More information: https://graphviz.org/doc/info/command.html .

Usage 🔗

Render a PNG image with a filename based on the input filename and output format (uppercase -O):

neato -T png -O path/to/input.gv

Render a SVG image with the specified output filename (lowercase -o):

neato -T svg -o path/to/image.svg path/to/input.gv

Render the output in PS, PDF, SVG, Fig, PNG, GIF, JPEG, JSON, or DOT format:

neato -T format -O path/to/input.gv

Render a GIF image using stdin and stdout:

echo "graph {this -- that} " | neato -T gif > path/to/image.gif

Display help:

neato -?

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