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Subject: Re: Passing a GNUplot variable to system(/usr/bin/awk)
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 01:43:13 +0200
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Am 18.06.2015 um 03:00 schrieb Dan'l B:
> This line in GNUplot works fine:
>
> system("/usr/bin/awk '/-1.98/{print $2 $1}' /path/to/myfile.txt")
>
> But how would I pass a variable from GNUplot into that in place of the -1.98 value?

About the most straightforward way would probably be to use gnuplot's 
string manipulation functions to construct your awk command line, e.g.

	awkcommand = sprintf("/usr/bin/awk '/%f/{print $2 $1}' 
/path/to/myfile.txt", STATS_max_y)
	system(awkcommand)