On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 19:05:48 +0200
Olaf Marzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I noticed hdparm is able to change the acoustic management value of HD (-Y
> flag) and my HD (IBM 60GXP 40 GB) is able to report it's temperature (I use
> hddtemp), so I decided it could be neat to have a script to set the HDspeed
> automatically, for example every 15 minutes.
>
> Unfortunately, I have never wrote scripts that deal with strings and I'm
> not able to extract the value of temperature and system load.
> hddtemp report this: "/dev/hda: IC350L40AVER07-0: 42�C"
> and /proc/loadavg: 0.005 0.02 0.01 xxxxxx".
>
> I'd like to extract the temperature ("42") and the third value of system
> load (if I remember correctly, the first refers to the first minute, the
> second to 5 minutes and the third 15 minutes).
>
> I tried sed and gawk but without success.
>
> THX
> Olaf
>
>
>
to extract temperature:
i don't know about hddtemp output, so i use var="/dev/hda: IC350L40AVER07-0: 42�C" for
this example ->
$ set -- $var; echo ${!#//[^0-9]/}
to extract the 3rd field from /proc/loadavg
$ set -- $(</proc/loadavg); echo $3
bye
jipe
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