Re: [Gnuplot-info] $(gnuplot --version) don't work

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

only4 wrote:

> I want to obtain the version string of gnuplot and get is in a shell script
> variable, but I get an error trying the common VERSION=$(gnuplot --version)
> Ps: My goal is write some lines of shell script that uses "filledcurves"
> only if Gnuplot is >=4, "lines" otherwise

Your main problem is that "gnuplot --version" works for version 4, but 
*not* for the version you're trying to test against (anything before 
that, up to and including 3.7.3).  The only backwards-compatible method 
to extract a version number from gnuplot is to run

	echo show version | gnuplot

and parse the resulting multi-line text.