I’m trying to make an svg from an inline stdin (like in the documentation) :

C:UsersVERBOSEDesktop>echo 'digraph { a -> b }' | dot -Tsvg > output.svg

Surprisingly, this gives two files :

The output.svg in the browser shows : This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

And why I open the b file in notepad, I see this : 'digraph { a - }'

I’m not a windows expert but I think it has to do with the > that is not espcaped.

An important detail, when I create a dot file manually and run the command below, it works :

C:UsersVERBOSEDesktop>dot file.dot -Tsvg -o output2.svg

Can you guys propose a solution ?