Hi,

i have a problem to use a system command from inside gnuplot.

sed -i 's/^\xef\xbb\xbf//' ./process-2023-11-02-13-04-40.csv

works at the terminal


system "sed -i 's/^\xef\xbb\xbf//' ./process-2023-11-02-13-04-40.csv"
and
system(sprintf("sed -i 's/^\xef\xbb\xbf//'
./process-2023-11-02-13-04-40.csv"))

in a gnuplot script do not work, but gnuplot shows me

GPVAL_SYSTEM_ERRNO = 0
GPVAL_SYSTEM_ERRMSG = "Success"


as a test I try

system "cp ./process-2023-11-02-13-04-40.csv ./process-2023-11-02-13-04-40.test"

this works, the file process-2023-11-02-13-04-40.test was created.


what's wrong?

Jörg

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On 07/11/2023 09:24, Jörg Buchholz wrote:

Hi,

i have a problem to use a system command from inside gnuplot.

sed -i 's/^\xef\xbb\xbf//' ./process-2023-11-02-13-04-40.csv

works at the terminal

system "sed -i 's/^\xef\xbb\xbf//' ./process-2023-11-02-13-04-40.csv"
and
system(sprintf("sed -i 's/^\xef\xbb\xbf//' ./process-2023-11-02-13-04-40.csv"))

Shouldn't that be just:
system("sed -i 's/^\xef\xbb\xbf//' ./process-2023-11-02-13-04-40.csv")
After all, sprintf isn't a system command and you're not expecting any
output.

in a gnuplot script do not work, but gnuplot shows me

GPVAL_SYSTEM_ERRNO = 0
GPVAL_SYSTEM_ERRMSG = "Success"

as a test I try

system "cp ./process-2023-11-02-13-04-40.csv ./process-2023-11-02-13-04-40.test"

this works, the file process-2023-11-02-13-04-40.test was created.

what's wrong?

Jörg

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Am 07.11.2023 um 10:24 schrieb Jörg Buchholz:

Hi,

i have a problem to use a system command from inside gnuplot.

sed -i 's/^\xef\xbb\xbf//' ./process-2023-11-02-13-04-40.csv

works at the terminal

system "sed -i 's/^\xef\xbb\xbf//' ./process-2023-11-02-13-04-40.csv"
and
system(sprintf("sed -i 's/^\xef\xbb\xbf//' ./process-2023-11-02-13-04-40.csv"))

Unfortunately this suffers from a lack of escaping. Please note that
"strings in double quotes" go through some pre-processing in gnuplot,
including backslash escape substitution done to them before being used.
So if you want literal backslashes, they have to be escaped. See "help
quote" for the details.

What that means is that

system "sed -i 's/^\\xef\\xbb\\xbf//' ./process-2023-11-02-13-04-40.csv"

should work better.

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On 07.11.23 18:52, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:

Am 07.11.2023 um 10:24 schrieb Jörg Buchholz:

Hi,

i have a problem to use a system command from inside gnuplot.

sed -i 's/^\xef\xbb\xbf//' ./process-2023-11-02-13-04-40.csv

works at the terminal


system "sed -i 's/^\xef\xbb\xbf//' ./process-2023-11-02-13-04-40.csv"
and
system(sprintf("sed -i 's/^\xef\xbb\xbf//'
./process-2023-11-02-13-04-40.csv"))

Unfortunately this suffers from a lack of escaping.  Please note that "strings in double quotes" go through some pre-processing in gnuplot, including backslash escape substitution done to them before being used.
So if you want literal backslashes, they have to be escaped. See "help
quote" for the details.

What that means is that

system "sed -i 's/^\\xef\\xbb\\xbf//' ./process-2023-11-02-13-04-40.csv"

should work better.

That's it. Thanks a lot. I was nearby, but use the wrong slash to
escaped backslashes.

Jörg

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