make_percentile_plot

#!/bin/sh
#
#  * Written by Gil Tene of Azul Systems, and released to the public domain,
#  * as explained at http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
#
# This script uses gnuplot to plot the percentile distribution in the
# input files provided. run with "-h" option for an expected usage description.
#
# The script assumes the input files contain ".hgrm" formatted output such
# as the one provided by HdrHistogram. The 4th column in the input files is
# expected to be the value of 1/(1-percentile) (for a given percentile),
# and the 1st column in the input files is expected to be the value at the
# given percentile.
#

reading_SLA_NAME=0
reading_OUTPUT_NAME=0
helpFlagFound=0
SLA_NAME=
FILES=
OUTPUT_FILENAME=
reading_maxvalue=0
maxvalue=

for var in $@; do
	if [ $reading_SLA_NAME -eq 1 ]; then
		SLA_NAME=$var
		reading_SLA_NAME=0
	elif [ $reading_OUTPUT_NAME -eq 1 ]; then
		OUTPUT_FILENAME=$var
		reading_OUTPUT_NAME=0
	elif [ $reading_maxvalue -eq 1 ]; then
		maxvalue="set yrange [0:$var]"
		reading_maxvalue=0
	elif [ $var = "-h" ]; then
		helpFlagFound=1
	elif [ $var = "-o" ]; then
		reading_OUTPUT_NAME=1
	elif [ $var = "-s" ]; then
		reading_SLA_NAME=1
	elif [ $var = "-m" ]; then
		reading_maxvalue=1
	else
		FILES="$FILES $var"
	fi
done

message()
{
    echo "$@" >&2
}

if [ $helpFlagFound -eq 1 ]; then
	message "Usage: make_percentile_plot [-o output_file] [-s sla_file] histogram_file ..."
	exit 255
fi

echo "1.0	0.0	0%" > ./xlabels.dat
echo "10.0	0.0	90%" >> ./xlabels.dat
echo "100.0	0.0	99%" >> ./xlabels.dat
echo "1000.0	0.0	99.9%" >> ./xlabels.dat
echo "10000.0	0.0	99.99%" >> ./xlabels.dat
echo "100000.0	0.0	99.999%" >> ./xlabels.dat
echo "1000000.0	0.0	99.9999%" >> ./xlabels.dat
echo "10000000.0	0.0	99.99999%" >> ./xlabels.dat

IndividualFilePlotCommands="'./xlabels.dat' with labels center offset 0, 1.5 point"
for file in $FILES; do
	IndividualFilePlotCommands="$IndividualFilePlotCommands, '$file' using 4:1 with lines"
done

if [ $SLA_NAME ]; then
	IndividualFilePlotCommands="$IndividualFilePlotCommands, '$SLA_NAME' with lines ls 1"
	message plotting "{ " $FILES " }" with SLA $SLA_NAME
else
	message plotting "{ " $FILES " }"
fi

message command will be:
message $IndividualFilePlotCommands

(
    echo "#plot commands"
    echo "set terminal png size 1280,720"
    if [ $OUTPUT_FILENAME ]; then
        echo "set output '$OUTPUT_FILENAME'"
    fi
    echo "set logscale x"
    echo "unset xtics"
    echo "$maxvalue"
    echo "set key top left"
    echo "set style line 1 lt 1 lw 3 pt 3 linecolor rgb \"red\""
    echo "plot $IndividualFilePlotCommands"
) | gnuplot