A Gnuplot question

Thomas Weber thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com
Wed Nov 26 15:04:21 CST 2008


On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 03:04:53PM -0500, Vic Norton wrote:
> I realize this is not an Octave question per se, but perhaps someone  
> here can answer it.
> 
> My question: How do you change directory in Gnuplot so that your  
> working directory is the directory containing the calling script?
> 
> I know how to do this in Octave:
>     basedir = fileparts(mfilename("fullpath"));
>     chdir(basedir);
> I know how to do it in Perl:
>     use FindBin qw($Bin);
>     chdir $Bin;
> But I don't know how to do it in Gnuplot.

help cd

which, btw, works in Octave as well

	Thomas


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