Automating Gnuplot

oakenshield

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Oct 22, 2009, 4:31:46 AM10/22/09

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Hello people,
I'm on a Linux box and trying to figure our how to (some sort of )
automate gnuplot on a data file gathered by some bash scripts in the
format: "Y/m/d" "some number"
e.g.
Date Number
1999/01/01 5
1999/01/02 10
... ...
1999/02/01 0
... ...
2009/09/30 32

I fully understand to plot all of the data. Such as:

set xdata time
set timefmt "%Y/%m/%d"
set format x "%b %d"
set xlabel "Date"
set ylabel "Frequency"
set grid
set xrange ["1999/01/01":"2009/09/30"]
set terminal png
set title "Overall"
set nokey
set output "overall.png"
plot "frequencies.txt" using 1:2 with boxes

Bu i want to automate plotting procedure in a monthly basis such that,
for example, for a particular i can get 12 graphs of this particular
year with correct titles like "January 1999" or simply "January". Is
there anyone to help me?

Thanks in advance.

oakenshield

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Oct 22, 2009, 4:35:17 AM10/22/09

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Sorry for typos. For the very first paragraph, i 'd mean "figure
out" , and in the last paragraph it should be "for a particular
year"...

oakenshield

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Oct 22, 2009, 4:35:30 AM10/22/09

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On Oct 22, 11:31 am, oakenshield <oakenshield.tho...@gmail.com> wrote:

geep

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Oct 22, 2009, 5:11:37 AM10/22/09

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Hi,
I achieve gnuplot automation using Perl.
I use Perl scripts to generate a gnuplot command file,
and then call gnuplot from within Perl to use that command file.

Could also use bash scripts, but for handling time/date I prefer Perl.

Good luck,
Peter

oakenshield

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Oct 22, 2009, 6:23:49 AM10/22/09

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> Hi,
> I achieve gnuplot automation using Perl.
> I use Perl scripts to generate a gnuplot command file,
> and then call gnuplot from within Perl to use that command file.
>
> Could also use bash scripts, but for handling time/date I prefer Perl.
>
> Good luck,
> Peter

Hi, thanks for the reply. I've achieved my goal through a bash script.
The following URL gave some clues about how to handle such conditions.

http://ac12.wordpress.com/2007/03/26/automation-for-the-win/

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Oct 28, 2009, 7:38:02 PM10/28/09

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Why don't you simply call gnuplot from your crontab.
If I understood your problem, you wanna call gnuplot every x days (or
hours or whatever time you like).

In that case, the good old crontab is the perfect tool.
Do a man cron and man crontab for all the details but, quickly, it's the
basic Unix programm that helps you launching shell script or command at
predefined time on a regular basis.

Therefore, if you wanna generate your charts every month with gnuplot,
cron will call it for you.

Cheers,
David

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Oct 28, 2009, 7:38:34 PM10/28/09

to oakenshield

Why don't you simply call gnuplot from your crontab.
If I understood your problem, you wanna call gnuplot every x days (or
hours or whatever time you like).

In that case, the good old crontab is the perfect tool.
Do a man cron and man crontab for all the details but, quickly, it's the
basic Unix programm that helps you launching shell script or command at
predefined time on a regular basis.

Therefore, if you wanna generate your charts every month with gnuplot,
cron will call it for you.

Cheers,
David

>> Hi,