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                        <h1><a class="header" href="#dot1" id="dot1">dot(1)</a></h1>
<p><a href="https://edotor.net/">Online playground</a></p>
<h2><a class="header" href="#example-dot-file-to-copy--paste-from" id="example-dot-file-to-copy--paste-from">Example <code>dot</code> file to copy &amp; paste from.</a></h2>
<p>Can be rendered to <code>svg</code> with the following command.</p>
<pre><code class="language-bash">dot -T svg -o g.svg g.dot
</code></pre>
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<pre><code class="language-dot">// file: g.dot
digraph {
    // Render ranks from left to right.
    rankdir=LR
    // Make background transparent.
    bgcolor=transparent

    // Global node attributes.
    node [shape=box]
    // Global edge attributes.
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    // Add nodes &amp; edge.
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    // Add multiple edges at once.
    stage2 -&gt; { stage3_1, stage3_2 }
    // Add edge with custom attributes.
    stage3_2 -&gt; stage4 [label=&quot;some text&quot;]

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    stage4 [color=green,fillcolor=lightgray,style=&quot;filled,dashed&quot;,label=&quot;s4&quot;]

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    // global node/edge attributes.
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    subgraph cluster_1 {
        stage5_1
        stage5_2
    }

    // Add some edges to subgraph nodes.
    stage3_1 -&gt; { stage5_1, stage5_2 }
}
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<p>Rendered <code>svg</code> file.
<img src="https://johannst.github.io/notes/assets/g.svg" alt="g.svg" /></p>
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