Re: [Gnuplot-info] command line arguments to gnuplot scripts

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Philipp Fechteler wrote:

> Is it possible to pass arguments to a Gnuplot script (in Linux on the
> command line), e.g. a file name for a data file. I would like to do the
> following kind of script:
> 
> #! /usr/bin/gnuplot
> set title ARGV[1]
> plot ARGV[1].data using ($16 * 8):20 with linespoints notitle
> pause -1

The easiest would be not to make them direct /usr/bin/gnuplot scripts, 
but rather something like this:

#! /bin/sh
name=$1
/usr/bin/gnuplot <<\EOF
set title "$name"
plot "$name.data" using (\$16 * 8):20 with linespoints notitle
pause -1
EOF

Alternatively, you can put the arguments into environment variables and use

	`echo $VARIABLE`

in your gnuplot script to access them.