Gnuplot plotting data from a file up to some row

Question

I have data in some text file which has let\'s say 10000 rows and 2 columns. I know that I can plot it easily by plot \"filename.txt\" using 1:2 with lines . Wh

Answer 1

It appears that the "every" command in gnuplot is what you're looking for:

plot "filename.txt" every ::1000::2000 using 1:2 with lines

Alternatively, pre-process your file to select the rows in which you are interested. For example, using awk:

awk "NR>=1000 && NR<=2000" filename.txt > processed.txt

Then use the resulting "processed.txt" in your existing gnuplot command/script.