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It is useful for people who don't realize xterm(1) supports Sixel graphics. :-)

It still blows people away when I set my GNUTERM var to 'sixelgd font "Arial,8" size 800, 600'

In xterm, you can use bash to type these two lines:

   $ export GNUTERM='sixelgd font "Arial, 8" size 800, 600'
   $ gnuplot -e 'plot sin(x)'
And poof! a plot will appear.


It's useful for people who work with data, like in ml, data science, etc.


Or for sysadmin or anything where a quick plot at the data gives you hints at what's happening.

In the example screenshot I put on https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot/maste..., I was investigating time sync issues.

A plot immediately told me my first fix had corrected the issue on 2 servers, but I had mistakenly applied the same change to a 3rd one.




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