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More trickery with gnuplot dumb terminal

In my post "Plotting memory usage on console" the chart doesn't pan the data.
Now, using a named pipe, the effect got a little bit nicer.
First, we have to run the memUsage.sh script to get a file filled with memory usage info:
./memUsage.sh > memUsage.dat &
Then we have to create a named pipe:
mkfifo pipe
Now we have to run another process to tail only the last 64 lines from the memUsage.dat
while [ 1 ]; do tail -64 memUsage.dat> pipe; done &
And now we just have to plot the data from the pipe:
watch -n 1 'gnuplot -e "set terminal dumb;p \"pipe\" with lines"'
And that is it!

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  1. Filipi ViannaNovember 23, 2011 at 2:29 PM

    An even better effect can be achieved using:
    "unset border"
    "unset xtics"
    "unset ytics"
    and plotting with notitle
    as follows
    watch -n 1 'gnuplot -e "set terminal dumb;unset border; unset xtics;unset ytics;p \"pipe\" with impulses notitle"'

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  2. isanjaykpMarch 28, 2014 at 1:49 PM

    Helped...Good one

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  3. AtcoldJune 4, 2014 at 2:56 PM

    No need to run the second process! You can simply run gnuplot and pass the following file "< tail -64 memUsage.dat"

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