I am trying to change my scale on gnuplot. I had a file from which I am plotting the fifth and sixth columns, and I am trying to change the x axis to a log scale. I am using
set logscale <x> <2>
but it is saing that 'x' is an invalid axis. Is there a way to find out what the "name" of my 'x' axis is so that I can use this command?
From your question it's rather hard to see what you exactly want. Comment if this isn't what you're looking for. It sounds like you want to set the x axis to logscale base 2. It's done this way
set logscale x 2
In general, this is the command
set logscale <axes> <base>