Re: [Gnuplot-info] plotting out of two datafiles at once?

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Thomas Pfrommer wrote:

> I am wandering how I would plt a simple x-y plot where I have the x data in one column 
> of file1.txt and the y data in file2.txt. I.e. the x-data do not change and I have 100s of 
> different y-datafiles. To save memory, I only saved the x-data once. 

Zipping the data would have worked better...

> I know I could write a simple c-program to read-in data, save the 2 columns of interest 
> in a dummy file and plot this one, however, I was wandering if there is a simpler way. 

Of course there is.  Somebody already wrote that program for you.  It's 
called 'paste', and should be available in a friendly Unix toolbox near you:

	plot "< paste xfile.dat yfile_5.dat"