J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 6/6/2014, 7:33 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
But even more fun, you can take a trip back to 1997 to read Scott
Raney's article in Linux Journal about using LiveCode (back then called
"MetaCard") to build a GUI for top:
<http://porky.linuxjournal.com:8080/LJ/043/2110.html>
This looked pretty cool so I recreated his stack. I think Mavericks
stores the file somewhere else because the scripts ran just fine but I
got no data back.
If anyone knows where Mavericks put the file, I'd like to try it. As-is,
it's looking for "/proc/stat" and there is no proc folder in OS X.
One nice thing about Unix/Linux is that everything is setup to appear as
a file, so piping and other goodies work together nicely.
One tricky thing about Unix/Linux is that not everything that appears to
be a file is actually a file. :)
/proc is a virtual file system containing system info ("processes").
It's more akin to an associative array than a directory tree.
Handy as it is, not all *nixes support it - this site explains more,
with some suggestions of OS X alternatives to some /proc info:
<http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/ancient/procfs/>
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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