NAME¶
quickplot_shell - a remote command line shell for quickplot
SYNOPSIS¶
Usage: quickplot_shell [PID]|[-h|--help]|[QUICKPLOT_OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION¶
Quickplot is an interactive 2D plotter. It's primary focus is to
interactively display 2D plots.
quickplot_shell connects to a running
Quickplot program.
quickplot_shell provides a command line interface
for most of the graphical user interfaces that are in the Quickplot program.
quickplot_shell reads and writes to standard input and standard output
respectively. When standard input is a tty device
quickplot_shell
enables readline tab completion and history. If you would like to save your
Quickplot shell history between sessions just create a .quickplot_history in
your home directory with a command like `touch ~/.quickplot_history'.
If the argument option
PID is not given,
quickplot_shell will
launch Quickplot as a new process and connect to that new process. In this
case Quickplot will be started with
QUICKPLOT_OPTIONS if any are given.
If
PID is given,
quickplot_shell will connect to a running
Quickplot program with process ID
PID.
quickplot_shell sets up two named pipes, signals the running Quickplot
program and writes commands and reads responses to and from the pipe. The
named pipes will be unlinked as soon as they are connected, and hence will be
removed automatically when the two programs are no longer running.
quickplot_shell, the remote Quickplot shell, acts just like running
quickplot --shell, a local Quickplot shell, but
quickplot_shell runs as a separate process and talks to the Quickplot
program using pipes, where as
quickplot --shell runs one process
with both the GUI and the shell with no pipes. You may connect as number of
remote Quickplot shells to a Quickplot program.
- -h, --help
- display help and exit
SEE ALSO¶
quickplot(1)
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright (C) 1998-2011 Lance Arsenault
Quickplot is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.
Quickplot is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
Quickplot. If not, see <
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
AUTHOR¶
Lance Arsenault <lanceman@users.sourceforge.net>
Send bug reports or comments to the above address.
For more information, see the Quickplot homepage at
<
http://quickplot.sourceforge.net/>.