这是一个很好的问题。
以下内容基于t16web.lanl.gov/Kawano/gnuplot/plot4-e.html#5.12。
您基本上需要绘制数据两次,每个轴一次。第二次绘制数据时,我将实际绘图移出范围(减去 1000),因此只绘制了一个绘图。以下 shell 脚本生成数据并将其绘制如下图所示。
希望这是你想要的。
#!/bin/bash
echo "2010-11-17 13:30:01,1
2010-11-17 13:30:12,3.1
2010-11-18 13:30:23,2.1
2010-11-19 13:30:34,4" > two_axis.dat
gnuplot<<EOF
## Plot a second axis with the day rather than the time
## Based on example from http://t16web.lanl.gov/Kawano/gnuplot/plot4-e.html#5.12.
## make a png file
set term png small
set output "two_axis.png"
## reduce the size of the main plot to allow for second axis
set size 1.0,0.8
set bmargin 0
set lmargin 3 # set space given to axis
## The data for the second plot will be set to be out of range,
## Need to explicitly set range here.
set yrange [0:5]
set multiplot
## Main plot, raised slightly
set origin 0,0.2
set datafile separator ","
set xdata time
set timefmt "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
set format x "%H:%M"
## Need to set xrange so that the axes of the two plots match exactly
set xrange["2010-11-17 12:00:00":"2010-11-19 14:00:00"]
## The main plot!
plot "./two_axis.dat" using 1:2 with lines
## Now want to draw second axis with just the days
set origin 0,0.1
## Dont want any ytics or minor xtics or drawn axes
set noytics
unset mxtics
unset border
## Don't want axis mirrored, want tick scales to zero so that it vanishes,
## And some format for the days of the week axis
set xtics nomirror scale 0 format "%Y-%m-%d"
## Specify the tics interval in seconds 1 day = 86400 seconds
set xtics "2010-11-01 00:00:00", 86400, "2010-12-01 00:00:00"
## Replot the graph but this time with the data shifted out of the way,
## we don't want to replot the data (difficult to align with previous plot) -
## we just want the axis
plot "./two_axis.dat" using 1:(\$2-1000) with lines notitle
## clean up
unset multiplot
set output
set term pop
EOF
一切顺利,
汤姆