# GNUPLOT help needed

**URL:** <https://community.unix.com/t/gnuplot-help-needed/280847>\
**Category:** Emergency UNIX and Linux Support\
**Created:** [January 16, 2011, 4:32am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/gnuplot-help-needed/280847 "2011-01-16T04:32:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![jojo123](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/jojo123/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@jojo123](https://community.unix.com/u/jojo123)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 4:32am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/gnuplot-help-needed/280847/1 "2011-01-16T04:32:17Z")

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Dear All,

I am new to GNUPLOT 😃 and dont know how it works, but actually there is a LINUX script generated by me which is running & capturing data in real time, the problem is that i want to plot that data in real time using GNUPLOT.😕

please help.:wall:

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**Author:** ![Corona688](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/corona688/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Corona688](https://community.unix.com/u/Corona688)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 11:23am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/gnuplot-help-needed/280847/2 "2011-01-16T11:23:02Z")

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gnuplot's not a realtime monitoring program. Regenerate the plot frequently.

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**Author:** ![otheus](https://community.unix.com/user_avatar/community.unix.com/otheus/32/505_2.png) [@otheus](https://community.unix.com/u/otheus)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 11:37am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/gnuplot-help-needed/280847/3 "2011-01-16T11:37:13Z")

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Try getting rrdtool. It uses a png-generation library as a backend, but the rrdtool offers some very nice graphing features with a command-line (ie, script) interface. All docs are in the man pages. Latest version I think is 1.4.16 or something

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**Author:** ![Cybertib](https://community.unix.com/user_avatar/community.unix.com/cybertib/32/6828_2.png) [@Cybertib](https://community.unix.com/u/Cybertib)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 6:05pm UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/gnuplot-help-needed/280847/4 "2011-03-23T18:05:28Z")

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Hello,  
I've been using GNUplot 4.4 and previous since a while now. Here is a website which opened my eyes on this amazing software powerfull enough to make publishable figures!

Have a strong look to the whole website. I have others links if you're interested in even better graphical representations and treatments.

Sorry, I have not 5 posts yet, then the link did not publish here. Will try to message it to you.

Cheers from France,  
Thibault

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**Author:** ![gaurab](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/gaurab/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@gaurab](https://community.unix.com/u/gaurab)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/gnuplot-help-needed/280847/5 "2011-04-07T17:13:53Z")

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> [@cybertib](#):
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> Hello,  
> I've been using GNUplot 4.4 and previous since a while now. Here is a website which opened my eyes on this amazing software powerfull enough to make publishable figures!

Hi Thibault, I use a lot of gnuplot too. Could you please PM me (or post the link here, now that you have 5 posts) the link to the website you mentioned?

Thanks in advance,  
Gaurab

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**Author:** ![Cybertib](https://community.unix.com/user_avatar/community.unix.com/cybertib/32/6828_2.png) [@Cybertib](https://community.unix.com/u/Cybertib)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2011, 6:54am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/gnuplot-help-needed/280847/6 "2011-04-08T06:54:01Z")

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- Very complete website to start with necessary features, when you need GNUplot to be more than "plot sin(x)"  
[gnuplot / plot (1E)](http://t16web.lanl.gov/Kawano/gnuplot/plot1-e.html#5.1)

- Enhanced graphical features and histogram stuffs  
[Gnuplot tricks: Basic statistics with gnuplot](http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~zov1/gnuplot/html/gallery.html)

- Working scripts for histograms and least square fitting  
[Computational Physics, 1B - The Joys of gnuplot](http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/teaching/comput/C++/examples/gnuplot/index.shtml)

That's it ! 🙂  
I hope it gonna help you.

Cheers,  
Thibault