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    I think the issue is that the quotes don't do what you think they do - outside of the context of a shell, "set is a literal token. Try having your script output the bare commands set terminal pngcairo; set ... and then run them using parallel -q gnuplot -e Commented Jun 4, 2021 at 19:03
  • Thanks! This solved it. I removed the escaped quotes as well as the -e. And the -q for parallel doesn't seem to make a difference in how it's run. I think because there's nothing to expand in the 2nd expansion. Commented Jun 4, 2021 at 19:46