get current filename?

[Bart Vandewoestyne]

Is there a way to retrieve the name of the currently executed
gnuplot script inside the gnuplot script itself? For example, if
the name of the gnuplot script is myfile.pl, then inside
myfile.pl i would like to have something like

set out "myfile.eps"

where the string 'myfile' is set automatically.

Thanks,
Bart

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[Lewin Boehnke]

I do not know a way for this using gnuplot but you can write your script using Gnuplot.py (google for it). Then you have full access to python syntax and the scripts name can be found in sys.argv[0].

[goo...@catking.net]

Is there some reason why your script cannot contain its own name ?

# top line of script test.pl

basename='test';
set outfile=basename.'.eps';
set datafile=basename.'data';

etc.

or else

bash$ gnuplot << set scriptname='test.pl' ; load 'test.pl'

( PS check syntax ;) )