So I've been asked the following. Given a set of different CSV files, the first record of which is the various field labels, and all following records are data, are there any Linux-based tools that can take these files as input and graph them in a reasonable way without being manually configured for each CSV file? I don't know of any Linux-based tools that would handle this automatically in a reasonable way. Did I miss something? Thanks!
@lauren Python has good tools for dealing with CSV files formatted like that. If you know Python, you could write a very short script that would generate the proper gnuplot commands. (I think there are Python plotting packages but I don't know them, which is why I always use Python to generate the gnuplot input.)
@SteveBellovin I don't want to write any code, and I've barely ever used GnuPlot. If I write it I'll end up having to maintain it, and I don't have time. Just looking for something "simple" that will eat a CSV file, use the first record for the labels, and plot the remaining records over time horizontally.
@lauren @SteveBellovin I've done some gplot hacking recently, so I remember what I did. Contact me offline.
