How to plot the output of a command

Question

How can I plot the output of this command line with GNUPlot? What should the diagram script look like?

I want a histogram.

wget -O - -o /dev/null http://www.stackoverflow.com/ |
cat | cat | sed "s/</\n</g" |
grep '<\/\{0,1\}[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z\:\._\-]\{0,\}' |
cut -f 2 -d"<" | cut -f 1 -d">" | cut -f 1 -d" " |
sed "s/\//\\n/g" |
sort | uniq -c |
tail -n +2 |
cut -c5-

Since the first invocation of sed(1) seems wrong, and you didn't mention what kind of data you want to plot, it is difficult to answer your question. :) — cinsk, Dec 20 '11 at 00:15
@cinsk how is that `sed` wrong? It inserts a newline before each `<`. Correctly. — Kevin, Dec 20 '11 at 00:37
I don't remember how to work gnuplot, I just use the help facility every time I want it. — dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten, Dec 20 '11 at 01:00

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 20 '11 at 01:55

This should help you out. Write data to file (changed cut -c5- to cut -c4- because it was deleting the first digit):

wget -O - -o /dev/null http://www.stackoverflow.com/ | cat | sed "s/</\n</g" | grep '<\/\{0,1\}[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z\:\._\-]\{0,\}' | cut -f 2 -d"<" | cut -f 1 -d">" | cut -f 1 -d" " | sed "s/\//\\n/g" | sort | uniq -c | tail -n +2 | cut -c4- > mydata.txt

Create myplot.dem (some custom initialization added here, change it as you like it):

set style data histogram
set style fill solid border -1
set log y
set boxwidth 0.9
set term png
set tics out nomirror
set xtics rotate by -45
set output "histogram.png"
plot "mydata.txt" using 1:xticlabels(2)

and finally:

gnuplot myplot.dem

creates your plot "histogram.png" in current directory.

How to plot the output of a command

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