gnuplot plot running through windows cmd

Asked May 27 '16 at 08:48

Active May 27 '16 at 09:57

Viewed 1,602 times

I have gnuplot on Windows. I want to write the script on windows shell to authomatically plot in gnuplot, namely something like

   "...\gnuplot.exe" 'plot "file:exe" using 1:2'

But when trying to run such script, an error occurs: it writes "'plot", line 0: Cannot open script file 'plot'".

I tried to create temporary script a.cmd, in which the command

   plot "file:exe" using 1:2

is present. Now my command to run gnuplot looks like

   "...\gnuplot.exe" "a.cmd"

But then nothing happened, gnuplot isn't running with no errors.

I know that to load script in gnuplot window I need to run

   load "a.cmd" ,

and all will work. But when I try to launch

  ".../gnuplot.exe" 'load "a.cmd"' ,

then again error "Cannot open script file 'load'" occurs.

Next, I try to put a.cmd to gnuplot folder, and then run

 ".../gnuplot.exe" a.cmd

Now it launches without errors, but the gnuplot screen appears on the second and vanishes.

So how to run gnuplot plot through cmd script (launching the script -> launching gnuplot with plotting)?

edited May 27 '16 at 09:57

asked May 27 '16 at 08:48

John Taylor

Windows is really useless with single quotes. I have never tried it, but I suspect if you put all your *gnuplot* commands in a file called `plot.cmd` and run `gnuplot < plot.cmd` it will probably work. – Mark Setchell May 27 '16 at 10:16
http://stackoverflow.com/q/12328603/2604213 – Christoph May 27 '16 at 14:40

0 Answers0