Re: synchronization of octave with gnuplot?

[Mike Miller]

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.

Mike

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Michael B. Miller, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
and Institute of Human Genetics
University of Minnesota
http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/~mbmiller/



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