Re: [Gnuplot-info] Help with continually piping to gnuplot

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

Tony7682 wrote:

> The above seems to be working ok except for one thing: Each call to the cat
> | trpr | gnuplot line (bolded above) causes a new, separate gnuplot window
> to open. What I would like is for each successive call to that line to
> direct its output to the same gnuplot.

Then you need to entirely re-do the way your script runs gnuplot.  You 
need a single instance of gnuplot running as a background process, with 
its input redirected from a stream controlled by the shell.  A named 
pipe should work.