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Re: Way to limit xtics in histogram

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Date	2014-06-16 08:45 -0700
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Subject	Re: Way to limit xtics in histogram
From	waxrat@gmail.com

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On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 4:28:01 AM UTC-4, dir...@googlemail.com wrote:
> Because this thread is nearly the only one I found while searching the web I will post my improved solution of every... here:

Here's a complete, stand-alone, runnable script:

#!/bin/sh

# Generate the input data file.  Columns are:
# 1 datapoint identifier
# 2 Y value
# 3 xtic labels
perl -e 'for(500..600) {
  printf "%d\t%.1f\t\"Foo %d\"\n",$_,rand($_)/10,$_
}
' >in.dat

gnuplot <<EOF
set term png size 1800, 1000
set xtics rotate by -90

nth(countCol,labelCol,n) = \
  ((int(column(countCol)) % n == 0) ? stringcolumn(labelCol) : "")

set output "out.png"
plot \
"in.dat" using 1:2:xtic(nth(1,3,10)) with linespoints \
   pointtype 2 linecolor rgb "red"
EOF

display out.png &

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Re: Way to limit xtics in histogram diru91@googlemail.com - 2012-09-26 01:28 -0700
  Re: Way to limit xtics in histogram waxrat@gmail.com - 2014-06-16 08:45 -0700
    Re: Way to limit xtics in histogram Karl <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2014-06-16 18:28 +0200

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