Gnuplot: How to plot bash array without dumping it to a file - arrays

I am trying to plot a bash array using gnuplot without dumping the array to a temporary file.
Let's say:
myarray=$(seq 1 5)
I tried the following:
myarray=$(seq 1 5)
gnuplot -p <<< "plot $myarray"
I got the following error:
line 0: warning: Cannot find or open file "1"
line 0: No data in plot
gnuplot> 2
^
line 0: invalid command
gnuplot> 3
^
line 0: invalid command
gnuplot> 4
^
line 0: invalid command
gnuplot> 5''
^
line 0: invalid command
Why it doesn't interpret the array as a data block?
Any help is appreciated.

bash array
myarray=$(seq 1 5)
The myarray is not a bash array, it is a normal variable.
The easiest is to put the data to stdin and plot <cat.
seq 5 | gnuplot -p -e 'plot "<cat" w l'
Or with your variable and with using a here-string:
<<<"$myarray" gnuplot -p -e 'plot "<cat" w l'
Or with your variable with redirection with echo or printf:
printf "%s\n" "$myarray" | gnuplot -p -e 'plot "<cat" w l'
And if you want to plot an actual array, just print it on separate lines and then pipe to gnuplot
array=($(seq 5))
printf "%s\n" "${array[#]}" | gnuplot -p -e 'plot "<cat" w l'

Plot STDIN
gnuplot -p -e 'plot "/dev/stdin"'
Sample:
( seq 5 10; seq 7 12 ) | gnuplot -p -e 'plot "/dev/stdin"'
or
gnuplot -p -e 'plot "/dev/stdin" with steps' < <( seq 5 10; seq 7 12 )
More tunned plot
gnuplot -p -e "set terminal wxt 0 enhanced;set grid;
set label \"Test demo with random values\" at 0.5,0 center;
set yrange [ \"-1\" : \"80\" ] ; set timefmt \"%s\";
plot \"/dev/stdin\" using 1:2 title \"RND%30+40\" with impulse;" < <(
paste <(
seq 2300 2400
) <(
for ((i=101;i--;)){ echo $[RANDOM%30+40];}
)
)
Please note that this is still one line, you could Copy'n paste into any terminal console.

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so for reading the list of file, I use this code here below:
IFS=$'\n' read -d '' -r -a data < ./somefolder/mytext.txt
for i in {0..9} #i know that i have 10 items, thats why i use 0..9
do
echo "${data[$i]}"
done
lets say i have 1-10 in the txt file, so it should print like below:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Questions:
is there any simpler way to read/write the text list than this?
how to save/update/overwrite data of mytext.txt? lets say change 4 to 88 for example.
Full example:
#!bin/bash
IFS=$'\n' read -d '' -r -a data < ./somefolder/mytext.txt
for i in {0..9} #i know that i have 10 items, thats why i use 0..9
do
echo "${data[$i]}"
done
echo "change 4 to anything"
read any
update(){
for n in {0..9}
do
if [[ n == 3 ]]; then
echo any
else
echo "${data[$n]}"
fi
done
}
update > ./somefolder/mytext.txt
#i dont know what i should do, it throws some errors saying syntax error
echo "saved"
exit 0
This is the code and output of the code, it is not the same as you describe in the comments.
printf '%s\n' {a..z} > file.txt
cat file.txt
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l
m
n
o
p
q
r
s
t
u
v
w
x
y
z
A quick way of showing line numbers by using grep
grep -n . file.txt
A function to loop through an array.
func() {
n=1
for f; do
if (( n == 3 )); then
printf '%d %s\n' "$n" foo
else
printf '%d %s\n' "$n" "$f"
fi
((n++))
done
}
mapfile -t array < file.txt
func "${array[#]}"
Output
1 a
2 b
3 foo
4 d
5 e
6 f
7 g
8 h
9 i
10 j
11 k
12 l
13 m
14 n
15 o
16 p
17 q
18 r
19 s
20 t
21 u
22 v
23 w
24 x
25 y
26 z
On the other hand if you just want to replace everything with anything at a certain line and and ed is acceptable/available.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
printf '%s\n' ,n | ed -s file.txt
read -rp 'Change 4 to anything: ' input
printf '%s\n' "4c" "$input" . ,n w | ed -s file.txt
A more flexible version of the previous script.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
total=$(printf '%s\n' '$=' | ed -s file.txt)
printf '%s\n' ,n | ed -s file.txt
read -rp 'Enter the line number you want to change: ' int
if [[ $int == *[!0-9]* ]]; then
printf >&2 '%s is not an int\n' "$int"
exit 1
elif (( int > total )); then
printf >&2 '%s is out of range!' "$int"
exit 1
fi
read -rp "Enter the replacement at line $int: " input
printf '%s\n' "${int}c" "$input" . ,n w | ed -s file.txt
Caveat The file.txt name and path is still hard coded to the script, just add an additional read for the the file.

Output looped array data to separate columns in bash

I have three loops which process array data and print to the same log file. I would like to sort the output of each loop into columns which are separated by tabs using bash code:
1 2 3
1 2 3
1 2 3
1 2 3
1 2 3
Notice: 1 stands for the content of loop 1, 2 stands for the content of loop 2 and 3 stands for the content of loop 3.
declare -a Array1
declare -a Array2
declare -a Array3
for (( i = 0 ; i < 9 ; i++))
do
echo "${Array1[$i]}"
done | tee -a log.txt
for (( i = 0 ; i < 9 ; i++))
do
echo "(( ${Array1[$i]}-${Array2[$i]} ))" | bc
done | tee -a log.txt
for (( i = 0 ; i < 9 ; i++))
do
echo "${Array3[$i]}"
done | tee -a log.txt
I tried some stuff with the column command, but it doesn't work out as outlined above.
The simplest option may be to use a single loop.
An alternative is to take the output format that you've got already and convert it into columns. This is one way of doing it:
# Read the concatenated results into an array, $results
IFS=$'\n' read -d '' -r -a results < log.txt
# Print the concatenated results in columns
for (( i=0 ; i<9; i++ )) ; do
printf '%s\t%s\t%s\n' "${results[i]}" "${results[i+9]}" "${results[i+18]}"
done
If you don't need the log.txt file, you could just put the results into an array as you calculate them (using as many loops as you like) and print them afterwards.

Print the middle line of any file UNIX

I have to print the middle line of any text file without sed nor awk.
For example, the following file.txt:
line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4
line 5
I need something like:
$ command -flags file.txt
line 3
Is there any command?
Thanks.
Not the most efficient, but works in bash.
Use wc -l to count the lines, and divide by two. Then use tail -n +N | head -n 1 to print just the Nth line (where N starts at 1).
$ cat input.txt
A
B
C
D
E
$ tail -n +$(((`cat input.txt | wc -l` / 2) + 1)) input.txt | head -n 1
C
Note that a file with an even number of lines has no single "middle line".
I cat-ed the file to wc -l so it wouldn't print the filename.
sed -n $(((`cat input.txt| wc -l`/ 2) + 1))p input.txt

Cannot print entire array in Bash Shell script

I've written a shell script to get the PIDs of specific process names (e.g. pgrep python, pgrep java) and then use top to get the current CPU and Memory usage of those PIDs.
I am using top with the '-p' option to give it a list of comma-separated PID values. When using it in this mode, you can only query 20 PIDs at once, so I've had to come up with a way of handling scenarios where I have more than 20 PIDs to query. I'm splitting up the list of PIDs passed to the function below and "despatching" multiple top commands to query the resources:
# $1 = List of PIDs to query
jobID=0
for pid in $1; do
if [ -z $pidsToQuery ]; then
pidsToQuery="$pid"
else
pidsToQuery="$pidsToQuery,$pid"
fi
pidsProcessed=$(($pidsProcessed+1))
if [ $(($pidsProcessed%20)) -eq 0 ]; then
debugLog "DESPATCHED QUERY ($jobID): top -bn 1 -p $pidsToQuery | grep \"^ \" | awk '{print \$9,\$10}' | grep -o '.*[0-9].*' | sed ':a;N;\$!ba;s/\n/ /g'"
resourceUsage[$jobID]=`top -bn 1 -p "$pidsToQuery" | grep "^ " | awk '{print $9,$10}' | grep -o '.*[0-9].*' | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g'`
jobID=$(($jobID+1))
pidsToQuery=""
fi
done
resourceUsage[$jobID]=`top -bn 1 -p "$pidsToQuery" | grep "^ " | awk '{print $9,$10}' | grep -o '.*[0-9].*' | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g'`
The top command will return the CPU and Memory usage for each PID in the format (CPU, MEM, CPU, MEM etc)...:
13 31.5 23 22.4 55 10.1
The problem is with the resourceUsage array. Say, I have 25 PIDs I want to process, the code above will place the results of the first 20 PIDs in to $resourceUsage[0] and the last 5 in to $resourceUsage[1]. I have tested this out and I can see that each array element has the list of values returned from top.
The next bit is where I'm having difficulty. Any time I've ever wanted to print out or use an entire array's set of values, I use ${resourceUsage[#]}. Whenever I use that command in the context of this script, I only get element 0's data. I've separated out this functionality in to a script below, to try and debug. I'm seeing the same issue here too (data output to debug.log in same dir as script):
#!/bin/bash
pidList="1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25"
function quickTest() {
for ((i=0; i<=1; i++)); do
resourceUsage[$i]=`echo "$i"`
done
echo "${resourceUsage[0]}"
echo "${resourceUsage[1]}"
echo "${resourceUsage[#]}"
}
function debugLog() {
debugLogging=1
if [ $debugLogging -eq 1 ]; then
currentTime=$(getCurrentTime 1)
echo "$currentTime - $1" >> debug.log
fi
}
function getCurrentTime() {
if [ $1 -eq 0 ]; then
echo `date +%s`
elif [ $1 -eq 1 ]; then
echo `date`
fi
}
jobID=0
for pid in $pidList; do
if [ -z $pidsToQuery ]; then
pidsToQuery="$pid"
else
pidsToQuery="$pidsToQuery,$pid"
fi
pidsProcessed=$(($pidsProcessed+1))
if [ $(($pidsProcessed%20)) -eq 0 ]; then
debugLog "DESPATCHED QUERY ($jobID): top -bn 1 -p $pidsToQuery | grep \"^ \" | awk '{print \$9,\$10}' | grep -o '.*[0-9].*' | sed ':a;N;\$!ba;s/\n/ /g'"
resourceUsage[$jobID]=`echo "10 10.5 11 11.5 12 12.5 13 13.5"`
debugLog "Resource Usage [$jobID]: ${resourceUsage[$jobID]}"
jobID=$(($jobID+1))
pidsToQuery=""
fi
done
#echo "Dispatched job: $pidsToQuery"
debugLog "DESPATCHED QUERY ($jobID): top -bn 1 -p $pidsToQuery | grep \"^ \" | awk '{print \$9,\$10}' | grep -o '.*[0-9].*' | sed ':a;N;\$!ba;s/\n/ /g'"
resourceUsage[$jobID]=`echo "14 14.5 15 15.5"`
debugLog "Resource Usage [$jobID]: ${resourceUsage[$jobID]}"
memUsageInt=0
memUsageDec=0
cpuUsage=0
i=1
debugLog "Row 0: ${resourceUsage[0]}"
debugLog "Row 1: ${resourceUsage[1]}"
debugLog "All resource usage results: ${resourceUsage[#]}"
for val in ${resourceUsage[#]}; do
resourceType=$(($i%2))
if [ $resourceType -eq 0 ]; then
debugLog "MEM RAW: $val"
memUsageInt=$(($memUsageInt+$(echo $val | cut -d '.' -f 1)))
memUsageDec=$(($memUsageDec+$(echo $val | cut -d '.' -f 2)))
debugLog " MEM INT: $memUsageInt"
debugLog " MEM DEC: $memUsageDec"
elif [ $resourceType -ne 0 ]; then
debugLog "CPU RAW: $val"
cpuUsage=$(($cpuUsage+$val))
debugLog "CPU TOT: $cpuUsage"
fi
i=$(($i+1))
done
debugLog "$MEM DEC FINAL: $memUsageDec (pre)"
memUsageDec=$(($memUsageDec/10))
debugLog "$MEM DEC FINAL: $memUsageDec (post)"
memUsage=$(($memUsageDec+$memUsageInt))
debugLog "MEM USAGE: $memUsage"
debugLog "CPU USAGE: $cpuUsage"
debugLog "MEM USAGE: $memUsage"
debugLog "PROCESSED VALS: $cpuUsage,$memUsage"
echo "$cpuUsage,$memUsage"
I'm really stuck here as I've printed out entire arrays before in Bash Shell with no problem. I've even repeated this in the shell console with a few lines and it works fine there:
listOfValues[0]="1 2 3 4"
listOfValues[1]="5 6 7 8"
echo "${listOfValues[#]}"
Am I missing something totally obvious? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance! :)
Welcome to StackOverflow, and thanks for providing a test case! The bash tag wiki has additional suggestions for creating small, simplified test cases. Here's a minimal version that shows your problem:
log() {
echo "$1"
}
array=(foo bar)
log "Values: ${array[#]}"
Expected: Values: foo bar. Actual: Values: foo.
This happens because ${array[#]} is magic in quotes, and turns into multiple arguments. The same is true for $#, and for brevity, let's consider that:
Let's say $1 is foo and $2 is bar.
The single parameter "$#" (in quotes) is equivalent to the two arguments "foo" "bar".
"Values: $#" is equivalent to the two parameters "Values: foo" "bar"
Since your log statement ignores all arguments after the first one, none of them show up. echo does not ignore them, and instead prints all arguments space separated, which is why it appeared to work interactively.
This is as opposed to ${array[*]} and $*, which are exactly like $# except not magic in quotes, and does not turn into multiple arguments.
"$*" is equivalent to "foo bar"
"Values: $*" is equivalent to "Values: foo bar"
In other words: If you want to join the elements in an array into a single string, Use *. If you want to add all the elements in an array as separate strings, use #.
Here is a fixed version of the test case:
log() {
echo "$1"
}
array=(foo bar)
log "Values: ${array[*]}"
Which outputs Values: foo bar
I would use ps, not top, to get the desired information. Regardless, you probably want to put the data for each process in a separate element of the array, not one batch of 20 per element. You can do this using a while loop and a process substitution. I use a few array techniques to simplify the process ID handling.
pid_array=(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ... )
while (( ${#pid_array[#]} > 0 )); do
printf -v pidsToQuery "%s," "${pid_array[#]:0:20}"
pid_array=( "${pid_array[#]:20}" )
while read cpu mem; do
resourceUsage+=( "$cpu $mem" )
done < <( top -bn -1 -p "${pidsToQuery%,}" ... )
done

Awk: extract different columns from many different files

File Example
I have a 3-10 amount of files with:
- different number of columns
- same number of rows
- inconsistent spacing (sometimes one space, other tabs, sometimes many spaces) **within** the very files like the below
> 0 55.4 9.556E+09 33
> 1 1.3 5.345E+03 1
> ........
> 33 134.4 5.345E+04 932
>
........
I need to get column (say) 1 from file1, column 3 from file2, column 7 from file3 and column 1 from file4 and combine them into a single file, side by side.
Trial 1: not working
paste <(cut -d[see below] -f1 file1) <(cut -d[see below] -f3 file2) [...]
where the delimiter was ' ' or empty.
Trial 2: working with 2 files but not with many files
awk '{
a1=$1;b1=$4;
getline <"D2/file1.txt";
print a1,$1,b1,$4
}' D1/file1.txt >D3/file1.txt
Now more general question:
How can I extract different columns from many different files?
In your paste / cut attempt, replace cut by awk:
$ paste <(awk '{print $1}' file1 ) <(awk '{print $3}' file2 ) <(awk '{print $7}' file3) <(awk '{print $1}' file4)
Assuming each of your files has the same number of rows, here's one way using GNU awk. Run like:
awk -f script.awk file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt file4.txt
Contents of script.awk:
FILENAME == ARGV[1] { one[FNR]=$1 }
FILENAME == ARGV[2] { two[FNR]=$3 }
FILENAME == ARGV[3] { three[FNR]=$7 }
FILENAME == ARGV[4] { four[FNR]=$1 }
END {
for (i=1; i<=length(one); i++) {
print one[i], two[i], three[i], four[i]
}
}
Note:
By default, awk separates columns on whitespace. This includes tab characters and spaces, and any amount of these. This makes awk ideal for files with inconsistent spacing. You can also expand the above code to include more files if you wish.
The combination of cut and paste should work:
$ cat f1
foo
bar
baz
$ cat f2
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
$ cat f3
a b c d
e f g h
i j k l
$ paste -d' ' <(cut -f1 f1) <(cut -d' ' -f2 f2) <(cut -d' ' -f3 f3)
foo 2 c
bar 5 g
baz 8 k
Edit: This works with tabs, too:
$ cat f4
a b c d
e f g h
i j k l
$ paste -d' ' <(cut -f1 f1) <(cut -d' ' -f2 f2) <(cut -f3 f4)
foo 2 c
bar 5 g
baz 8 k

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