Re: files for plotting given by string function

[Lutz M. <ma...@uc...>]

On Thursday 16 June 2005 00:23, J=FCrgen Wieferink wrote:
> On Wednesdy, 15 June 2005 23:36, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> >   set macros
> >   file_list =3D system("ls -1 a.*.dat | dirlist.pl")
> >   plot @file_list
>
> In this special case, backtic substition will already do the job:
>
>   plot `ls -1 a.*.dat | dirlist.pl`

The problem with this is that it produces a plot with only a single item,=20
i.e., all the different files have the same (point|line)style. I was hoping=
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for a shortcut to automatically plot many files, each with a different styl=
e.

  Lutz