Just so I can remember it for next time, this plot:
Came from a dataset with a zillion lines like this:
#Set Temp TZone TErr Int PDrive sPWM Time 30.0 15.7 3 -14.30 0.000 -1.000 -255 0 30.0 15.7 3 -14.30 0.000 -1.000 -255 142 30.0 15.7 3 -14.30 0.000 -1.000 -255 245 30.0 15.7 3 -14.30 0.000 -1.000 -255 348
Using this Bash script to allow many different file names:
#!/bin/sh
export GDFONTPATH="/usr/share/fonts/truetype/"
base=${1%%.*}
echo Base name: ${base}
ofile=${base}.png
echo Output file: ${ofile}
gnuplot << EOF
#set term x11
set term png font "arialbd.ttf" 18 size 950,600
set output "${ofile}"
set title "Peltier Test - Loop Tuning"
set key noautotitles
unset mouse
set bmargin 4
set grid xtics ytics
set xlabel "Time - sec"
#set format x "%4.0f"
#set xrange [5000:7500]
#set xtics 0,5
set mxtics 2
set ytics nomirror autofreq
set ylabel "Various"
set format y "%5.1f"
set yrange [-2:2]
#set mytics 2
#set y2label "PWM"
#set format y2 "%3.0f"
#set y2range [0:255]
#set y2tics 32
#set rmargin 9
set datafile separator "\t"
#set label 1 "HP + LP" at 0.25,-14 font "arialbd,14"
plot \
"$1" using (\$8/1000):4 with lines lt 3 title "Error" ,\
"$1" using (\$8/1000):6 with lines lt 4 title "Drive"
# "$1" using 4 with lines lt 3 title "Error" ,\
# "$1" using 6 with lines lt 4 title "Drive"
# "$1" using (\$8/1000):1 with lines lt 3 title "Setpoint" ,\
# "$1" using (\$8/1000):2 with lines lt 4 title "Temp C"
EOF
There’s quite some other cruft in there, but the first part I must remember is right up at the top, where the magic incantation
base=${1%%.*}
chops off the file extension. Of course, that doesn’t work worth beans when the file name has several periods scattered through it.
The other part is at the bottom, where various alternate lines for the plot command must live after the last valid parameter line: the octothorpe comment header doesn’t work inside a command!
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