Hi James, > Is there's a cool way to pass "sh" output to grap's ticks command? > > I'd like to generate my x-axis "ticks" programatically, from the > data I'm bringing in with "copy". I have a line like this: > > ticks bottom out at 6.40000000e+01 "\s-1%.0f", 9.05096680e+01 "%.0f", \ > 1.28000000e+02 "%.0f", 1.81019336e+02 "%.0f", 2.56000000e+02 "%.0f", \ > 3.62038672e+02 "%.0f", 5.12000000e+02 "%.0f", 7.24077344e+02 "%.0f", \ > 1.02400000e+03 "%.0f", 1.44815469e+03 "%.0f", 2.04800000e+03 "%.0f", \ > 2.89630938e+03 "%.0f", 4.09600000e+03 "%.0f", 5.79261875e+03 "%.0f", \ > 8.19200000e+03 "%.0f\s+1" > > which came from the first column of the data file. I tried many > variations of > > ticks sh { awk ... } > > without any luck. (Even less luck because there doesn't seem to be a > way to escape the "$1" I would like to pass to awk.)
Use `sh' to produce the whole `ticks' line in a temporary file and then `copy' to read it in? Cheers, Ralph.