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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Escaping problem in a shell script Post 302720877 by franko007 on Thursday 25th of October 2012 09:17:31 AM
Old 10-25-2012
thank you i will try this tomorrow when i have access to my workstation again.
but to make this clear, i need the single quotes in the gnuplot command because the flag -e expects a list of "commands" seperated by ";" within quotes (' ')
but i think the double quotes could work too.
btw: the example in the first quote block i posted above works fine

---------- Post updated 10-25-12 at 08:17 AM ---------- Previous update was 10-24-12 at 05:11 PM ----------

hi again, i just tested your suggestion and it works great, thanks again.
 

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