Gnuplot plot error bars every 10 data points

Question

I want to plot my data with error bars. It is to do with the syntax

plot "xyz.dat' u 1:2:3 w yerrorbars

However, since my data file has 10000 data points, plotting all error bars would make the error bars overshadow the line shape of the data. So I want to plot error bars every 10 data points. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Try

plot "xyz.dat" u 1:2:3 every 10 w yerrorbars

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