end the pause

[Maximilian F. <mx...@gm...>]

Hi all,

fist of all I apologize if this topic came up recently already.

I love to use shell scripts for my work and to use gnuplot to present
intermediate results.
Now, it would be great if I could present a plot, let the user use all
the great interactive
features of the x11 terminal like zooming and continue my script only
after the user closed
the terminal. Alternatively if I could define a key - "q" for example
- which closes the current plot
and continues the gunplot script, that would be great.

A typical shell script of mine would look like this
--- SNIP ---
### generate some data in data.dat

echo "plot 'data.dat'" > plotit.tmp
echo "pause -1" >> plotit.tmp
gnuplot plotit.tmp

### continue working on the data
--- SNIP SNIP ---

But because of the "pause -1" the user has to focus the terminal and
hit a key before the script continues.

Before I start digging through code, is there already a solution to
this? Am I trying to do something stupid?

Cheers,

Maximilian