How to tell gnuplot not to print fit log on screen?

bash gnuplot
Ferdinando Randisi picture Ferdinando Randisi · Oct 11, 2012 · Viewed 9.3k times · Source

I'm writing a bash script that, among several more things, calls gnuplot to fit a few data files. When it does so my terminal gets flooded with the gnuplot fit log.

I do not want that, I'd like that gnuplot just kept the fit log to the file 'fit.log', rather than printing it on screen. But I can't find a gnuplot command to prevent the fit log file from being printed on terminal.

How can I redirect all gnuplot text output to a file because I would like to know just by looking at the terminal whether it returned any errors.

Answer

andyras picture andyras · Oct 11, 2012

The option you want is

set fit quiet

This will still make the fit.log file. If you don't want to create the file either, you can

set fit logfile '/dev/null'

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