xplot.org — fast tool to graph and visualize lots of data
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Bugs
Some people may not like that the right mouse button exits without confirmation, although others consider
it a feature that enables rapidly viewing hundreds of similar plots.
Should use standard X geometry specifications.
Debian 27 January 1999 XPLOT.ORG(1)
Description
xplot.org is a fast visualization tool for examining multiple data sets in parallel plots. It supports
easy zoom-in and zoom-out capabilities, and synchronized views into multiple data sets (with the -x, -y,
and -tile options).
History
The xplot.org command was written by Tim Shepard as a tool to use in his analysis of TCP performance
while at MIT. Some features were added by Andrew Heybey and Greg Troxel.
Name
xplot.org — fast tool to graph and visualize lots of data
Options
-1 allows one to look at multiple data sets, one at a time. This changes the behavior of click-right and
shift-click-right from exiting and printing to cycling forward and backward through the various plots.
-ddisplay,-displaydisplay,-d2display, all select which display(s) on which to draw the graphs.
-mono causes the graph(s) to be drawn in black and white, with no use of color.
-tile allows one to look at multiple data sets in parallel. The plots will each consume 1/nth of the
vertical space that would have been used with one plot. This works well if the window manager refrains
from wasting pixels with decorative tabs and respects the hints that xplot.org provides.
-v prints the version number.
-x causes several graphs to be synchronized on the X-axis (zooming in one window zooms all the others,
with the same portion of the X-axis on display). The Y-axis of the other graphs will be autoscaled to
fit the data.
-y causes several graphs to be synchronized on the Y-axis (zooming in one window zooms all the others,
with the same portion of the Y-axis on display).
Plot Language
There are several example files demo.0,demo.1,demo.2, etc., stored with the xplot.org sources. demo.0
lists all the commands.
xplot.orgdemo.0
demonstrates xplot.org's capabilities.
See Also
tcpdump2xplot(1) tcpdump(8)
Synopsis
xplot.org [-v] [-x] [-y] [-tile] [-mono] [-1] [-ddisplay | -displaydisplay] [-d2display] file
[files...]
Use With Tcpdump
The command
tcpdump-tt-S...>tcpdump.out
saves a tcpdump formatted output trace to tcpdump.out.The-tt and -S flags tell tcpdump to print an
unformatted timestamp and to use absolute TCP sequence numbers.
This trace can then be examined by being processed with tcpdump2xplot.tcpdump-plottcpdump.out