Im trying to make a little toolbox and for this I want to execute a script from .bashrc that writes a gnuplot file::

#!/bin/bash
echo 'set output' > pairwise.gp
echo "plot '" $1 "' u 1:2 w lp, '" $1 "' u 3:4 w lp" >> pairwise.gp

If I dont redirect the echo "" to a file, I get the output. If I execute the script with "./script test" from my current dir the file is executed properly.
I cannot execute the script properly from another dir when writing
/path/to/script test

Im wondering if I should just write
execute /path/to/script test
but Im running out of options

Hello and welcome to LQ.

Bash, regardless of it being an interactive login or non-interactive shell, when invoked as '/bin/bash', will source ~/.bashrc unless expressly prohibited or otherwise so configured. So scripts that do not have any bearing on the login process should not be executed from your Bash resource files.


While it's better to use 'mktemp', and unless overwriting is OK, if you don't you should at least test for existence of your output file and make sure the output goes to some temporary or other work directory or it'll end up in $PWD which could litter your filesystem with output files.


I don't know this "set output" option? Not that that means anything of course...


Maybe because you need to provide the location of "test" and execute it as '/path/to/script /path/to/test'?

I think I can boil the problem down to the script

when I call the script using /path/to/script I get the output 'something' in my konsole.
When I cd /path/to/script and type ./script I both get the output 'something' in my console and a file named 'pairwise.gp' with 'something else' written in it.

* The command is for making sure that I get the default output from gnuplot and not some .eps file

allright, the answer was simple:
instead of typing
echo 'something' > pairwise.gp
I have to type
echo 'something' > /path/to/pairwise.gp

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