On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 06:19:26PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> So,
>
> Here's some silly shell...
>
> $ grep bogomips /proc/cpuinfo | awk '{ print "+" $3 }' | tr -d '\n' | cut -c 2- |
> bc
> 6121.06
>
> Your mission: To work out what it's doing, why you'd be stupid enough to
> want to do it, and then how to do it better. It has to be in shell, and it
> has to handle decimals! :-)
Too easy. You just need to learn some more awk Mr Waugh :) You don't even need
to fork at all.
$ awk '{ if(/bogomips/){ SUM+=$3 } } END {print SUM}' /proc/cpuinfo
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John
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