Is Gnuplot Suitable For Scripting?

1.	Is Gnuplot Suitable For Scripting?
Answer» Yes. Gnuplot is suitable for scripting. The scripts can be read by gnuplot during an interactive SESSION. It also runs in batch mode. RUNNING in batch mode is done by piping a pre-existing file. A stream of commands can also be sent to STDIN, to RUN in batch mode. PACKAGES such as Octave is easily wrapped in a cgi script to be used as a web-driven plot generator.

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Yes. Gnuplot is suitable for scripting.
The scripts can be read by gnuplot during an interactive SESSION.
It also runs in batch mode.
RUNNING in batch mode is done by piping a pre-existing file.
A stream of commands can also be sent to STDIN, to RUN in batch mode.
PACKAGES such as Octave is easily wrapped in a cgi script to be used as a web-driven plot generator.

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