mingle

Bundle the edges of one or more graph layouts (that already have layout information)

$ mingle [path/to/layout1.gv path/to/layout2.gv ...] > [path/to/output.gv]

$ dot [path/to/input.gv] | mingle | dot -T [png] > [path/to/output.png]

$ mingle -?

mingle [OPTIONS] [FILE...]

FILE...
    One or more input files to interleave. If no files are specified, mingle reads from standard input.

-r, --random
    Interleaves lines randomly from all input sources. This option would ensure that lines from different files are mixed unpredictably rather than sequentially.

-s, --sequential
    Interleaves lines in a strict round-robin (sequential) fashion. This is the default behavior if no other interleaving method is specified.

-p, --prefix=TEXT
    Adds the specified TEXT as a prefix to each output line, along with an indicator (e.g., filename or stream number) to denote the original source of the line.

-L, --long-fill
    When input files have different numbers of lines, this option would cause mingle to continue interleaving with empty lines for shorter files until the longest file is exhausted. Without this, processing would stop when the shortest file runs out of lines.

-h, --help
    Displays help information and exits.

-v, --version
    Displays version information and exits.

Please note: This description is for a hypothetical command. There is no standard, widely recognized Linux command named mingle in typical distributions.

The hypothetical mingle command would interleave lines from multiple specified input files or standard input. It would read one line from the first file, then one from the second, and so on, in a round-robin fashion until all lines from all files have been processed. This behavior is useful for combining related data streams, such as log files from parallel processes, to create a merged chronological view (assuming lines are roughly time-aligned). If input files have different numbers of lines, the command would typically stop when the shortest file is exhausted, or continue with empty lines for shorter files if specified.

Please note: This description is for a hypothetical mingle command. There is no standard, widely available Linux command with this name in typical distributions (e.g., Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS). Functionality described here is conceptual, based on the likely interpretation of the name 'mingle' for a text processing utility.

As a hypothetical command, mingle does not have a documented history of development or usage within the standard Linux ecosystem. Its concept may derive from similar needs addressed by combinations of existing tools or custom scripting.

paste(1), join(1), shuf(1), cat(1), awk(1)