botch-graph-shortest-path(1) find the shortest path(s) between two vertices of a graph in GraphML or dot format

SYNOPSIS

botch-graph-shortest-path [options] [ingraph] [outgraph] --source SOURCE [SOURCE ...] --target TARGET [TARGET ...]

DESCRIPTION

Extract the subgraph of the shortest path between two specific nodes in the input graph.

The --target and --source options are mandatory. Since they can take more than one argument, they have to come after the positional arguments.

If either (or both) of the positional arguments is/are omitted, then read GraphML or dot from standard input and/or write GraphML or dot to standard output, respectively. Passing a '-' as either argument, explicitly specifies to read the input from standard input and write the output to standard output, respectively.

The input graph type will be determined automatically. If the output graph is given as a filename, then the output type will be GraphML if the filename ends with .xml and dot if the filename ends with .dot. If the output is done on standard output then it will happen in the same format as the input graph.

OPTIONS

-h, --help
Display help.
--target=TARGET [TARGET ...]
key:value pairs to match the target vertex

The special key "__ID__" allows one to select the unique vertex identifier.

--source=SOURCE [SOURCE ...]
key:value pairs to match the source vertex

The special key "__ID__" allows one to select the unique vertex identifier.

--all
instead of finding an arbitrary shortest path, find all shortest paths
-v, --verbose
Be verbose.

EXAMPLE

Extract the subgraph of the shortest path from a certain version of the build-essential binary vertex to a certain version of the ghc source vertex.

  botch-graph-shortest-path --source name:build-essential version:11.7 type:bin --target name:ghc version:7.8.4-8 type:src < in.xml > out.xml

or giving input and output as positional arguments:

  botch-graph-shortest-path in.xml out.xml --source name:build-essential version:11.7 type:bin --target name:ghc version:7.8.4-8 type:src

AUTHOR

This man page was written by Johannes Schauer. Botch is written by Johannes Schauer and Pietro Abate.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2012-2014 Johannes Schauer, Pietro Abate

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. A special linking exception to the GNU Lesser General Public License applies to this library, see the COPYING file for more information.