CCOMPS(1)						      General Commands Manual							 CCOMPS(1)

NAME

       ccomps - connected components filter for graphs

SYNOPSIS

       ccomps [ -sxvnzC?  ] [ -X[#]v ] [ -ooutfile ] [ files ]

DESCRIPTION

       ccomps decomposes graphs into their connected components, printing the components to standard output.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -s     No output graph is printed. The return value can be used to check if the graph is connected or not.

       -x     Only the connected components are printed, as separate graphs.

       -v     Counts of nodes, edges and connected components are printed.

       -z     Sort components by size, with the largest first. This is only effective if either -x or -X#v is present.	Thus, -zX#0 will cause the
	      largest component to be printed.

       -C     Use clusters in computing components in addition to normal edge connectivity. In essence, this gives the connected components of the
	      derived graph in which nodes top-level clusters and nodes in the original graph. This maintains all subgraph structure within a com-
	      ponent, even if a subgraph does not contain any nodes.

       -n     Do not project subgraph structure. Normally, if ccomps produces components as graphs distinct from the input graph, it  will  define
	      subgraphs which are projections of subgraphs of the input graph onto the component. (If the projection is empty, no subgraph is pro-
	      duced.)  If this flag is set, the component contains only the relevant nodes and edges.

       -X node_name
	      Prints only the component containing the node node_name, if any.

       -X# index
	      Prints only component number index, if any, starting at 0.

       -o outfile
	      If specified, each graph will be written to a different file with the names derived from outfile. In particular, if both -o  and	-x
	      flags are used, then each connected component is written to a different file. If outfile does not have a suffix, the first file will
	      have the name outfile; then next outfile_1, then next outfile_2, and so on.  If outfile has a suffix, i.e., has the  form  base.sfx,
	      then the files will be named base.sfx, base_1.sfx, base_2.sfx, etc.

       By default, each input graph is printed, with each connected component given as a subgraph whose name is a concatenation of the name of the
       input graph, the string "_component_" and the number of the component.

OPERANDS

       The following operand is supported:

       files   Names of files containing 1 or more graphs in dot format.  If no files operand is specified, the standard input will be used.

RETURN CODES

       Unless used to extract a single connected component, ccomps returns 0 if all the input graphs are connected; and non-zero if any graph  has
       multiple  components,  or  any error occurred.  If just extracting a single component, ccomps returns 0 on success and non-zero if an error
       occurred.

BUGS

       It is possible, though unlikely, that the names used for connected components and their	subgraphs  may	conflict  with	existing  subgraph
       names.

AUTHORS

       Stephen C. North <north@research.att.com>
       Emden R. Gansner <erg@research.att.com>

SEE ALSO

       gc(1), dot(1), gvpr(1), gvcolor(1), acyclic(1), sccmap(1), tred(1), libgraph(3)

								  27 August 2008							 CCOMPS(1)