I am trying to plot a graph using gnuplot. I have six text files. Each text file contains two columns. The first column represents time in seconds (a floating point number). The second one is a sequence number. I want to plot the graph of time vs. sequence number in a single graph for all six files. I am using this file to do that.
set terminal png
set output 'akamai.png'
set xdata time
set timefmt "%S"
set xlabel "time"
set autoscale
set ylabel "highest seq number"
set format y "%s"
set title "seq number over time"
set key reverse Left outside
set grid
set style data linespoints
plot "print_1012720" using 1:2 title "Flow 1", \
plot "print_1058167" using 1:2 title "Flow 2", \
plot "print_193548" using 1:2 title "Flow 3", \
plot "print_401125" using 1:2 title "Flow 4", \
plot "print_401275" using 1:2 title "Flow 5", \
plot "print_401276" using 1:2 title "Flow 6"
Where my files are:
print_1012720
print_1058167
print_193548
print_401125
print_401275
print_401276
It is giving a strange error as below:
"plot.plt", line 24: undefined variable: plot
Am I doing something wrong? Is it possible to plot the input data from different files in the same graph?
Best Answer
You're so close!
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The error arises because gnuplot is trying to interpret the word "plot" as the filename to plot, but you haven't assigned any strings to a variable named "plot" (which is good – that would be super confusing).