Bash script which plots data using XMGRACE tool

Question

I have written a bash script that generates files containing data and saves them to a directory. I would like my script to also plot these files using xmgrace.

Initially

Answer 1

Yes, it is possible to call xmgrace/Grace without the GUI (using gracebat), but the commands you have used must first be inside a script file.

Contents of file "script.bat":

xaxis label "Label 1" 
yaxis label "Label 2" 
DEVICE "EPS" OP "level2"
PRINT TO "plot.eps"
PRINT

Now, for a two-column data file "data.dat" you call a sister executable named gracebat which is the same as xmgrace but operates in batch mode (without the GUI):

gracebat -nosafe data.dat -batch script.bat

where

-batch