Plotting multiple files to single ps file in different pages using gnuplot

Question

I have folders 10,11,12,...50. In all the folders I have data files "data.dat". I want to plot data from all these files in to a single ps file. Each file gets a page of their own. Like:

plot "10/data.dat" u 1:3 w l, "10/data.dat" u 1:4 w l, "10/data.dat" u 1:5 w l

plot "11/data.dat" u 1:3 w l, "11/data.dat" u 1:4 w l, "11/data.dat" u 1:5 w l

.....

plot "50/data.dat" u 1:3 w l, "50/data.dat" u 1:4 w l, "50/data.dat" u 1:5 w l

So each file gets their own page and the ps file will have 41 pages. How do I do that using some kind of loop structure in gnuplot? Or how should I use shell script?

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Christoph
– Christoph

2015-11-05 17:00:06 +00:00
Commented Nov 5, 2015 at 17:00 — Christoph
– Christoph, Commented Nov 5, 2015 at 17:00

Azad · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-06 12:30:10Z

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You should use a do for since a plot for would plot all of them in a single page.

do for [i=10:41] {
    set title "Plot ".i
    plot "".i."/data.dat" u 1:3 w l, "" u 1:4 w l, "" u 1:5 w l
}

edited Nov 6, 2015 at 12:30

answered Nov 5, 2015 at 17:09

Azad

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Population Xplosive Over a year ago

Great! Thanks! One more question though. How do I set the title of the graph to the value of "i", ie, something like set title "plot for $i"

Population Xplosive Over a year ago

How should one use i in calculations? For example, set title "Plot" .i.-5 or set title "Plot" .i.*5

Population Xplosive Over a year ago

Never mind. I used set title sprintf("Plot %d",i-5). But it would be nice to know how to do the other way as well!

Azad Over a year ago

@PopulationXplosive . is the string concatenation operator which accepts a number or another string as the right operand so you could use it like "plot ".(i-5) or "plot ".(i*5). You should however note that numbers doesn't have this operator so i."/data.dat" would be an error but you could circumvent this by first applying to an empty string which is why i wrote "".i."/data.dat".

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