Graphviz and ascii output

Question

Is it possible to draw ASCII diagram using Graphviz?

Something like that:

digraph
{
  this -> is
  this -> a
  a -> test
}

Giv

Answer 1

Using graph-easy via docker. You can install whalebrew and use it to run graph-easy without installing too much dependancies on your local machine other than whalebrew and docker.

on MacOS with homebrew install docker

$ brew install docker
$ docker -v      # check if docker is running

Install whalebrew - https://github.com/whalebrew/whalebrew (check installation alternatives)

$ brew install whalebrew

Install graph-easy via whalebrew

$ whalebrew install tsub/graph-easy

Now run it via

$ echo '[a]->[b]' | graph-easy

+---+     +---+
| a | --> | b |
+---+     +---+