On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 12:38:06PM EST, Mike Stroyan wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 06:49:25PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
[..]
> > I provides exactly the output I need .. although bash must provide a
> > more elegant (and less expensive) way to split a variable that contains
> > two fields separated
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 06:49:25PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 12:31:47AM EST, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > 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
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 12:31:47AM EST, Bob Proulx wrote:
> 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$4}')
Precise
cga2000 wrote:
> I was wondering if there is any way I can convince netstat to return
> its output to bash variables for additional processing.
Do you mean like this?
rxcnt=$(netstat -ni | awk '/^eth0/{print$4}')
> Pretty simple logic:
>
> Do forever:
>
> Call netstat to obtain RX & TX b
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
