Re: command line

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Thursday 31 August 2006 11:09 am, Dhiman Barman wrote:
> hi,
>   mean, it will be useful to have support for loops, variable
>   assignment in gnuplot files.
>
>   if I have to plot 100 files where only the output filename
>   and input file name change, it will be useful to have loop
>   support...but that also means having compiler/interpreter
>   support.

So embed the call to gnuplot in a perl/awk/shell script.
Loop 100 times, changing the file names via an environmental
variable or symlink or in the actual command that is sent
to gnuplot.

Actually you _can_ do this in gnuplot already, using 
string variables and a reread loop.  But it is awkward 
compared to a real scripting language.

	EAM



>
> dhiman
>
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 05:26:55PM -0700, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> > On Wednesday 30 August 2006 05:19 pm, Dhiman Barman wrote:
> > >   Is there any option of taking input from command
> > > line options while running gnuplot file.gnu?
> >
> > No.
> >
> > > Or can we embed scripts in gnuplot files.
> >
> > I don't understand what you mean.
> > Usually it is the other way around - you embed the
> > gnuplot calls in your script.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ethan A Merritt
> > Biomolecular Structure Center
> > University of Washington, Seattle WA

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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA