Re: Please advise on programming tactics/strategy

2007-12-18 Thread cga2000
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 09:57:44PM EST, Matthew Woehlke wrote: cga2000 wrote: I was wondering if there is any way I can convince netstat to return its output to bash variables for processing. Pretty simple logic: Do forever: Call netstat to obtain RX TX byte counts Print delta

Re: Please advise on bash programming tactics/strategy

2007-12-13 Thread cga2000
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

Re: Please advise on bash programming tactics/strategy

2007-12-12 Thread cga2000
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}') Precisely