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W0lf on July 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: New Features in Gnuplot 5.4

For a quick and dirty on the spot visualization for some data on the command line, I'd like to plug the following:

    function plot() {
        { echo 'plot "-"' "$@"; cat; } | gnuplot -persist;
    }

For example:

    seq 100 | sed 's/.*/s(&)/' | bc -l | plot linecolor 2

p4l4g4 on July 23, 2020 [–]

Nice! I like it when you can plug such programs in a pipeline.

Recently found out that you can use png:- as source or destination in any imagemagick command, to pipe images around! I find it really useful in combination with xclip, with -t to set the mime type. You can paste the result almost anywhere!

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