GNUPlot: How to set maximum number of x-ticks?

Something like this perhaps. I am assuming you are feeding the input data to this script, and that the number of lines of data decides how many x ticks you will need.

I don't really understand your comment of your question. Maybe you could edit your question, include the comment in it and elaborate what exactly you are doing.

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