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  <h2 id="NAME">NAME</h2>
<p class="man-name">
  <code>strong_conn</code> - <span class="man-whatis">Find the strongly connected components of a directed graph</span>
</p>

<h2 id="SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</h2>

<p><code>strong_conn</code> <var>graph_in</var> [SHOW]</p>

<h2 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h2>

<p><code>strong_conn</code> finds the strongly connected components of the directed
graph given as input using the Kosaraju-Sharir algorithm, and prints
the size of each of them. If the optional second parameter <code>SHOW</code> is
provided, the program dumps on output also the list of nodes belonging
to each component.</p>

<h2 id="PARAMETERS">PARAMETERS</h2>

<dl>
<dt><var>graph_in</var></dt><dd><p>  input graph (edge list) if equal to <code>-</code> (dash), read the edge list
  from STDIN.</p></dd>
<dt class="flush">SHOW</dt><dd><p>  If the (optional) second parameter is equal to <code>SHOW</code>, the program
  will dump on output the list of all the nodes belonging to each
  strongly connected component.</p></dd>
</dl>


<h2 id="OUTPUT">OUTPUT</h2>

<p><code>strong_conn</code> prints on the standard output the size of all the
strongly connected components of the directed graph given as input,
one per line:</p>

<pre><code>    size_1
    size_2
    size_3
    .....
</code></pre>

<p>where <code>size_1</code> is the size of the first component, <code>size_2</code> is the
size of the second component, and so on. Notice that the sizes are not
sorted.  If <code>SHOW</code> is given, the program shows the list of nodes
belonging to each strongly connected component, in the format:</p>

<pre><code>size_1: node_1 node_2 node_3 ...
size_2: node_1 node_2 node_3 ...
</code></pre>

<h2 id="EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</h2>

<p>The following command:</p>

<pre><code>      $ strong_conn web-NotreDame.net 
      53968
      1
      1
      1
      1
      1
      1
      ....
      $
</code></pre>

<p>shows on output the size of the strongly connected component of the
graph <code>web-NotreDame.net</code> (the NotreDame WWW data set), in no particular
order. In this case the graph has 203609 strongly connected
components, most of them containing only 1 isolated node.  If we want
to know who are the nodes belonging to each connected component, we
run:</p>

<pre><code>      $ strong_conn web-NotreDame.net SHOW
      53968: 0 1 3 4 5 6 7 8.....
      ..... 325727 325728
      1: 351
      1: 350
      1: 2209
      1: 2208
      1: 2206
      1: 10609
      ....
      $
</code></pre>

<p>It is better to save the output of <code>strong_conn</code> into a file, e.g. by
using:</p>

<pre><code>      $ strong_conn web-NotreDame.net SHOW &gt; web-NotreDame.net_scc
</code></pre>

<h2 id="SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</h2>

<p><span class="man-ref">components<span class="s">(1)</span></span>, <span class="man-ref">node_components<span class="s">(1)</span></span>, <span class="man-ref">largest_component<span class="s">(1)</span></span></p>

<h2 id="REFERENCES">REFERENCES</h2>

<ul>
<li><p>V. Latora, V. Nicosia, G. Russo, "Complex Networks: Principles,
Methods and Applications", Chapter 6, Cambridge University Press
(2017)</p></li>
<li><p>V. Latora, V. Nicosia, G. Russo, "Complex Networks: Principles,
Methods and Applications", Appendix 8, Cambridge University Press
(2017)</p></li>
</ul>


<h2 id="AUTHORS">AUTHORS</h2>

<p>(c) Vincenzo 'KatolaZ' Nicosia 2009-2017 <code>&lt;v.nicosia@qmul.ac.uk&gt;</code>.</p>


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