Re: synchronization of octave with gnuplot?

[Thorsten Meyer]

Thanks a lot!

That's the solution!

John W. Eaton wrote:

> On  2-Dec-2004, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> | On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Thorsten Meyer wrote:
> | 
> | >> It is possible to put an 'if' statement in your script to have it 
> | >> either "sleep(1)" or execute the awk code depending on the existence of 
> | >> a file or the existence of an ending element in a file tail.
> | > 
> | > You are right. I could have octave wait for the existence of the file. 
> | > But as soon as it exists, I would have to keep parsing it in a loop in 
> | > order to see if it is complete.
> | 
> | But can't you then use my second suggestion and look at the file tail for 
> | a string?  For example, maybe this command...
> | 
> | tail -1 file.eps
> | 
> | ...always returns this string...
> | 
> | %%EOF
> | 
> | ...when the gnuplot process has completed.  The details of how this would 
> | be done depend on your shell.
>
> If you just want to postprocess, then why not write your awk script as
> a filter, then do something like
>
>  gset output "| awk -f myscript.awk > foo.eps"
>
> Does that work?  To get the output flushed to the pipe, you may have
> to issue another "gset output" command or use closeplot.
>
> jwe
>
>
>  



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