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On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 03:50:06PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Greg Wooledge wrote on 03/06/17 14:38:
> > On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 05:25:49PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> >> If you need floating point numbers, bc (or dc) are your next stops.
> >
> > Or awk. For some problems, awk is fantastic.
> >
>
> Yes, it helps to sample the number of "bytes" like so:
>
> owl1=$(awk '/usb0/ {print $2}' /proc/net/dev)
>
> # insert process to be measured
>
> bytes=$(awk "/usb0/ {print (\$2 - $owl1)}" /proc/net/dev)
Yep to Greg and thanks to Jörg. And to those who say "Perl": again,
I'm a Perl fan, but awk is *much* nimbler than Perl and thus far a
better match as a toolset utility in a shell script's context.
regards
- -- tomás
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