Re: [Gnuplot-info] gnuplot, get single value

[alexgm24 <ale...@ho...>]

Finally I have found one way to do that with cat and awk:

a=`cat -n file.data | awk '{if ($1 == 13) print $8}'`

This way I get the value in the line 13 and columm 7
Hope usefull for some one else.



alexgm24 wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I want to get a single value from a data file to use it as a constant:
> 
> a = "this value is the one that is in the file.data"
> 
> And then I want to plot the column 2 * this value.I have so many data
> files to do an script for each one.
> 
> plot "file.dat" using 1:($2*a)
> 
> Any idea?
> Thanks in advance.
> 

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