Re: [Gnuplot-info] stdin datafile as a variable

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Richard Henwood wrote:
> I would like to do something like the following contrived example:
> 
> gnuplot> dataFile = sprintf("\'< ps aux | tail -%d\'", 20)
> gnuplot> plot dataFile u 2
>          warning: Skipping unreadable file "'< ps aux | tail -20'"
>          No data in plot
> 
> as the error copied above indicates, I'm not having much joy!
> 
> Any suggestions?

You've over-contrived your example.  The \' are not useful.  Drop them, 
and you should be getting somewhere:


dataFile = sprintf("< ps aux | tail -%d", 20)