parallel-gnuplot

Parallel calls to GNUPlot. Calls the same GNUPlot script once for each data file block. Please, note GNUPlot has copyrights, and parallel-gnuplot is not a modified version of GNUPlot.

GNUPlot variables

parallel-gnuplot sets some GNUPlot variables:

Usage

parallel-gnuplot datafilename gpfilename [tmpdirectory]

or

program_outputing_data | parallel-gnuplot gpfilename [tmpdirectory]

or

cargo run --release -- datafilename gpfilename [tmpdirectory]

where [tmpdirectory] is optional.

Example

data.txt:

# block 0:
0 0
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4


# block 1:
0 0
1 2
2 4
3 6
4 8

script.gp:

set terminal png size 800,600
set encoding utf8

set xrange [0:4]
set yrange [0:8]

set key left top
set output sprintf("%d", INDEX).'.png'

plot DATAFILE with lp lw 2 pt 7 ps 3 title sprintf("Block %d", INDEX)

You can call: parallel-gnuplot ./data.txt ./script.gp or cargo run --release -- ./data.txt ./script.gp or something like cat ./data.txt | parallel-gnuplot ./script.gp

Features