prune - Prune directed graphs

       Marcus Harnisch <marcus.harnisch@gmx.net>

                                                                                                        prune(1)

prune  reads  directed  graphs  in  the  same format used by dot(1) and removes subgraphs rooted at nodes
       specified on the command line via options. These nodes themselves will not be removed, but can  be  given
       attributes  so that they can be easily located by a graph stream editor such as gvpr(1).prune correctly
       handles cycles, loops and multi‐edges.

       Both options can appear multiple times on the command line. All subgraphs rooted at the respective  nodes
       given will then be processed. If a node does not exist, prune will skip it and print a warning message to
       stderr.   If  multiple  attributes are given, they will be applied to all nodes that have been processed.
       prune writes the result to the stdout.

       An input graph test.gv of the form

            digraph DG {
              A -> B;
              A -> C;

              B -> D;
              B -> E;
            }

       , processed by the command

            prune -n B test.gv

       would produce the following output (the actual code might be formatted in a slightly different way).

            digraph DG {
              A -> B;
              A -> C;
            }

       Another input graph test.gv of the form

            digraph DG {
              A -> B;
              A -> C;

              B -> D;
              B -> E;

              C -> E;
            }

       (note the additional edge from C to E ), processed by the command

            prune -n B -N color=red test.gv

       results in

            digraph DG {
              B [color=red];
              A -> B;
              A -> C;
              C -> E;
            }

       Node E has not been removed since its second parent C is not being pruned.

prune returns 0 on successful completion.  It returns 1 if an error occurs.

       prune - Prune directed graphs

-nname
              Specifies name of node to prune.

       -Nattrspec
              Specifies attribute that will be set (or changed if it exists) for any pruned node.  attrspec is a
              string of the form attr=value.-v     Verbose output.

       -h-?  Prints the usage and exits.

dot(1), gvpr(1)

prune [ -nnode ] [ -Nattrspec ] [ -v ] [ -(h|?)  ] [ files...  ]