echo 'hal-device | grep battery.remaining_time | awk '{print$3/3600}'
| awk '{print int($1)}":"int(60*($1-int($1)))'`
here is the final shell script is anyone is interested - this is
written and working in debian linux
Stephen Sefick
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Romain Francois
<romain.franc...@dbmail.com> wrote:
> stephen sefick wrote:
>>
>> I have wriiten (with the help of the internet) a bash scirpt for my
>> debian ppc 5.0 laptop to display battery remaining in a panel on the
>> xfce desktop environment.
>>
>> echo `hal-device | grep battery.remaining_time | awk '{print $3/3600}'
>> `-battery
>>
>> and this nicely spits out 4.95 hours in the panel. This is fine
>> except it is a snow day and I have some extra time on my hands. I was
>> wondering if I could write a little program that would take 4.95 and
>> convert it into 4: (.95*6) in other words 4:57 in R and then use that
>> in a shell script to tweak the battery remaining script. I am sure
>> there is a better way, but I am a noob to linux and have a couple of
>> years with R.
>> thanks
>>
>
> This is one for little r (http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler.html)
>
> $ echo "4.95" | r -e "x <- as.numeric(readLines()); cat( floor(x),':',
> round( ( x - floor( x ) ) * 60 ),'\n',sep='') "
> 4:57
>
> Romain
>
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