Re: reread doesn't

[Karl-Friedrich R. <ra...@un...>]

Am 29.09.2015 um 12:04 schrieb pl...@pi...:
> I am producing a graph ( SVG ) by using load command.
>
> To refresh it periodically, I have a pause and a reread at the end.
>
> The problem is the reread does NOT reread the file. I seems to have an 
> internal buffer and just pretends to reread.
>
> I can not find anything that would force an actual reread of the file.
>
>
> It would be extremely useful if it did really reread the file on disk 
> since this would allow another process to modify it.
>
> I seem to recall that there was some complication with this same 
> functionality needing to support pipes or direct input.
>
> Is there not a way to force a actual reload of the file? Maybe a ' 
> reread really ' option.

How about

     gnuplot -e  "while (1) {call 'plot.gp'; pause 10}"

?