Re: Please advise on bash programming tactics/strategy

2007-12-11 Thread Bob Proulx
cga2000 wrote: > I was wondering if there is any way I can convince netstat to return > its output to bash variables for additional processing. Do you mean like this? rxcnt=$(netstat -ni | awk '/^eth0/{print$4}') > Pretty simple logic: > > Do forever: > > Call netstat to obtain RX & TX b

Please advise on bash programming tactics/strategy

2007-12-11 Thread cga2000
I was wondering if there is any way I can convince netstat to return its output to bash variables for additional processing. Pretty simple logic: Do forever: Call netstat to obtain RX & TX byte counts for eth0 Print delta {current .. minus previous .. byte counts} Save current byte counts

rfe: auto-timing

2007-12-11 Thread Sam Steingold
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would like all long-running commands to be auto-timed. i.e., all commands I type at the prompt should be run as if with "time" built-in, but if the real or user time is smaller than some value (specified by the user in an environment variable), the t