1:41 p.m.
I can extract the following usage data from the Wildblue html usage screen.
I would like to have them in a file that would put the data on a
horizontal line separated by some white space perhaps.
My objective being to keep a record of daily bandwidth usage. [35% or
6.0 gB is my current usage, 17.0 the 30 day download allotment, the
other numbers for upload usage.]
[bobg@box9 ~]$ cat /home/bobg/usg.txt
35 %
6.0
17.0
8 %
0.4
5.0
I've been puzzling over this since yesterday, I'm sure there must be a
simple solution but I just haven't found it.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Bob
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1:55 p.m.
2009/10/31 Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin(a)wildblue.net>:
I can extract the following usage data from the Wildblue html usage screen.
I would like to have them in a file that would put the data on a horizontal
line separated by some white space perhaps.
My objective being to keep a record of daily bandwidth usage. [35% or 6.0 gB
is my current usage, 17.0 the 30 day download allotment, the other numbers
for upload usage.]
[bobg@box9 ~]$ cat /home/bobg/usg.txt
35 %
6.0
17.0
8 %
0.4
5.0
I've been puzzling over this since yesterday, I'm sure there must be a
simple solution but I just haven't found it.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Bob
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Perhaps there's some command. I don't remember. You could do it using
simple script. Something like that:
#!/bin/bash
cat /home/bobg/usg.txt | while read line; do
printf "$line"
done
Place it in a text file and make it executable (chmod +x <file_name>)
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2:12 p.m.
On 31/10/09 14:55, Hiisi wrote:
2009/10/31 Bob Goodwin<bobgoodwin(a)wildblue.net>:
> I can extract the following usage data from the Wildblue html usage screen.
> I would like to have them in a file that would put the data on a horizontal
> line separated by some white space perhaps.
>
> My objective being to keep a record of daily bandwidth usage. [35% or 6.0 gB
> is my current usage, 17.0 the 30 day download allotment, the other numbers
> for upload usage.]
>
> [bobg@box9 ~]$ cat /home/bobg/usg.txt
>
> 35 %
> 6.0
> 17.0
> 8 %
> 0.4
> 5.0
>
> I've been puzzling over this since yesterday, I'm sure there must be a
> simple solution but I just haven't found it.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction?
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> .
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Perhaps there's some command. I don't remember. You could do it using
simple script. Something like that:
#!/bin/bash
cat /home/bobg/usg.txt | while read line; do
printf "$line"
done
Place it in a text file and make it executable (chmod +x<file_name>)
That looks like a step in the right direction, the results aren't pretty
but I'll try with it some more.
Thank you
Bob
2:19 p.m.
2009/10/31 Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin(a)wildblue.net>:
On 31/10/09 14:55, Hiisi wrote:
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That looks like a step in the right direction, the results aren't pretty but
I'll try with it some more.
Thank you
Bob
Google for bash printf usage. It should be something like printf
<format> <arguments>
Using that you can make your output human readable.
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6:11 p.m.
Hi Bob,
On Saturday 31 October 2009 11:41 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
My objective being to keep a record of daily bandwidth usage. [35% or
6.0 gB is my current usage, 17.0 the 30 day download allotment, the
other numbers for upload usage.]
I know this is not the answer to your question but since you mention you
want to monitor your bandwidth usage, you could try vnstat[1]. Its a
very nifty light weight utility which keeps track of your network
traffic by running cron jobs at small intervals of time[2] and presents
all the information in neat graphs on the console.
It looks something like this (monthly, daily and hourly usage),
$ vnstat -m
eth0 / monthly
month rx | tx | total
-------------------------+--------------+--------------------------------------
Jul '09 27.70 GB | 4.04 GB | 31.74 GB %%%%%:
Aug '09 47.89 GB | 8.53 GB | 56.41 GB %%%%%%%%%::
Sep '09 46.46 GB | 22.15 GB | 68.61 GB %%%%%%%%%::::
Oct '09 77.20 GB | 35.38 GB | 112.58 GB %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%:::::::
-------------------------+--------------+--------------------------------------
estimated 78.04 GB | 35.76 GB | 113.80 GB
$ vnstat -d
eth0 / daily
day rx | tx | total
------------------------+-------------+----------------------------------------
02.10. 9.06 GB | 4.31 GB | 13.37 GB %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%:::::::
03.10. 9.55 GB | 4.56 GB | 14.11 GB %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%::::::::
04.10. 6.15 GB | 1.94 GB | 8.09 GB %%%%%%%%%%%:::
05.10. 5.76 GB | 4.66 GB | 10.41 GB %%%%%%%%%%::::::::
-----8<-----
31.10. 795.75 MB | 82.77 MB | 878.52 MB %
------------------------+-------------+----------------------------------------
estimated 1.16 GB | 122 MB | 1.28 GB
$ vnstat -h
eth0 16:00
^ r
| r
| r
| r
| r r
| r r r r
| r r r r
| r r r r r
| r r r r r
| r r r r r r
-+--------------------------------------------------------------------------->
| 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
h rx (kB) tx (kB) h rx (kB) tx (kB) h rx (kB) tx (kB)
17 0 0 01 97,631 7,115 09 1,779 2,677
18 0 0 02 12,936 3,909 10 1,73,799 9,531
19 0 0 03 3,022 2,440 11 6,405 5,535
20 0 0 04 2,996 2,945 12 9,107 6,131
21 0 0 05 1,760 2,679 13 5,130 5,477
22 0 0 06 1,769 2,692 14 51,841 6,879
23 1,68,340 6,300 07 1,739 2,680 15 1,59,879 12,284
00 2,83,305 9,102 08 1,755 2,676 16 0 0
Hope this is of use.
[1] http://humdi.net/vnstat/
[2] The cron job is like this,
$ cat /etc/cron.d/vnstat
MAILTO=root
# to enable interface monitoring via vnstat remove comment on next line
# */5 * * * * vnstat /usr/sbin/vnstat.cron
0-55/5 * * * * root if [ -x /usr/bin/vnstat ] && [ `ls /var/lib/vnstat/ | wc
-l` -ge 1 ]; then /usr/bin/vnstat -u; fi
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7:13 p.m.
On 31/10/09 19:11, Suvayu Ali wrote:
Hi Bob,
On Saturday 31 October 2009 11:41 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>
> My objective being to keep a record of daily bandwidth usage. [35% or
> 6.0 gB is my current usage, 17.0 the 30 day download allotment, the
> other numbers for upload usage.]
I know this is not the answer to your question but since you mention
you want to monitor your bandwidth usage, you could try vnstat[1]. Its
a very nifty light weight utility which keeps track of your network
traffic by running cron jobs at small intervals of time[2] and
presents all the information in neat graphs on the console.
Yes that looks interesting, new to me ...
If it correlates with the Wildblue data, even approximately, it would
work for me. But then I have other computers in the house on this
system. Might be able to take data before the router with an eth. hub
perhaps?
Thanks.
Bob
7:42 p.m.
Hi Bob,
On Saturday 31 October 2009 05:13 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
On 31/10/09 19:11, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Saturday 31 October 2009 11:41 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>
>> My objective being to keep a record of daily bandwidth usage. [35% or
>> 6.0 gB is my current usage, 17.0 the 30 day download allotment, the
>> other numbers for upload usage.]
>
> I know this is not the answer to your question but since you mention
> you want to monitor your bandwidth usage, you could try vnstat[1]. Its
> a very nifty light weight utility which keeps track of your network
> traffic by running cron jobs at small intervals of time[2] and
> presents all the information in neat graphs on the console.
Yes that looks interesting, new to me ...
If it correlates with the Wildblue data, even approximately, it would
work for me. But then I have other computers in the house on this
system. Might be able to take data before the router with an eth. hub
perhaps?
I am not sure whether vnstat can monitor something outside the box like
a hub or a router. But if at your house all the traffic goes through one
of the machines, then you can specify the interface to monitor with the
option `--iface _interface_'.
Good luck figuring this out :)
Thanks.
Bob
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1:21 a.m.
On 31/10/09 20:42, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> If it correlates with the Wildblue data, even approximately, it
would
> work for me. But then I have other computers in the house on this
> system. Might be able to take data before the router with an eth. hub
> perhaps?
I am not sure whether vnstat can monitor something outside the box
like a hub or a router. But if at your house all the traffic goes
through one of the machines, then you can specify the interface to
monitor with the option `--iface _interface_'.
Good luck figuring this out :)
> Thanks.
>
> Bob
The information is still of interest to me even though it only refers to
my computers, all of which go through one switch. I am always interested
in knowing what part of the usage is mine. Presently I can only infer
that! We have five users on four computer [actually 2 more for a total
of 6 since I have three connected to the LAN]. The common point is the
Netgear wireless router located in a different part of the house.
Bob
1:54 a.m.
On 10/31/2009 07:41 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
I can extract the following usage data from the Wildblue html usage screen.
I would like to have them in a file that would put the data on a
horizontal line separated by some white space perhaps.
My objective being to keep a record of daily bandwidth usage. [35% or
6.0 gB is my current usage, 17.0 the 30 day download allotment, the
other numbers for upload usage.]
[bobg@box9 ~]$ cat /home/bobg/usg.txt
35 %
6.0
17.0
8 %
0.4
5.0
I've been puzzling over this since yesterday, I'm sure there must be a
simple solution but I just haven't found it.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Bob
.
With bash only: cat /home/bobg/usg.txt | tr "\n" " "
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2:23 a.m.
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Joachim Backes
<joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
On 10/31/2009 07:41 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>
> I can extract the following usage data from the Wildblue html usage
> screen.
> I would like to have them in a file that would put the data on a
> horizontal line separated by some white space perhaps.
>
> My objective being to keep a record of daily bandwidth usage. [35% or
> 6.0 gB is my current usage, 17.0 the 30 day download allotment, the
> other numbers for upload usage.]
>
> [bobg@box9 ~]$ cat /home/bobg/usg.txt
>
> 35 %
> 6.0
> 17.0
> 8 %
> 0.4
> 5.0
>
> I've been puzzling over this since yesterday, I'm sure there must be a
> simple solution but I just haven't found it.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction?
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> .
>
With bash only: cat /home/bobg/usg.txt | tr "\n" " "
Complete shell "in-process" implementation -
$ echo `< usg.txt`
or
$ echo $(< usg.txt)
Didar
2:25 a.m.
On 01/11/09 02:54, Joachim Backes wrote:
cat /home/bobg/usg.txt | tr "\n" " "
[bobg@box9 ~]$ cat /home/bobg/usg.txt | tr "\n" " "
35 % 6.0 17.0 8 % 0.4 5.0
That's the best solution yet. Not sure what it's doing but will look at
the man page again when I am fully awake.
Thanks.
Bob
2:31 a.m.
On 11/01/2009 09:25 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
On 01/11/09 02:54, Joachim Backes wrote:
> cat /home/bobg/usg.txt | tr "\n" " "
[bobg@box9 ~]$ cat /home/bobg/usg.txt | tr "\n" " "
35 % 6.0 17.0 8 % 0.4 5.0
That's the best solution yet. Not sure what it's doing but will look at
the man page again when I am fully awake.
Thanks.
Bob
The tr command reads from stdin (that's the output of cat) and
transforms all new line chars to blanks (see "man tr"), so all lines
will be concatenated (by a blank char) to *one* line.
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2:39 a.m.
On 11/01/2009 08:54 AM, Joachim Backes wrote:
On 10/31/2009 07:41 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>
> I can extract the following usage data from the Wildblue html usage screen.
> I would like to have them in a file that would put the data on a
> horizontal line separated by some white space perhaps.
>
> My objective being to keep a record of daily bandwidth usage. [35% or
> 6.0 gB is my current usage, 17.0 the 30 day download allotment, the
> other numbers for upload usage.]
>
> [bobg@box9 ~]$ cat /home/bobg/usg.txt
>
> 35 %
> 6.0
> 17.0
> 8 %
> 0.4
> 5.0
>
> I've been puzzling over this since yesterday, I'm sure there must be a
> simple solution but I just haven't found it.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction?
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> .
>
With bash only: cat /home/bobg/usg.txt | tr "\n" " "
A little bit more compact:
tr </home/bobg/usg.txt "\n" " "
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2:42 a.m.
On 01/11/09 03:31, Joachim Backes wrote:
On 11/01/2009 09:25 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> On 01/11/09 02:54, Joachim Backes wrote:
>> cat /home/bobg/usg.txt | tr "\n" " "
>
>
> [bobg@box9 ~]$ cat /home/bobg/usg.txt | tr "\n" " "
>
> 35 % 6.0 17.0 8 % 0.4 5.0
>
> That's the best solution yet. Not sure what it's doing but will look at
> the man page again when I am fully awake.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bob
>
The tr command reads from stdin (that's the output of cat) and
transforms all new line chars to blanks (see "man tr"), so all lines
will be concatenated (by a blank char) to *one* line.
Yes, I kept wondering, if there was a way to change the "new line" to a
space, tab, comma, whatever but I couldn't see how. Obviously I lack the
skill to do the things I want ...
Thanks to all.
Bob
2:45 a.m.
On 11/01/2009 09:42 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
On 01/11/09 03:31, Joachim Backes wrote:
> On 11/01/2009 09:25 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>> On 01/11/09 02:54, Joachim Backes wrote:
>>> cat /home/bobg/usg.txt | tr "\n" " "
>>
>>
>> [bobg@box9 ~]$ cat /home/bobg/usg.txt | tr "\n" " "
Some bits more compact:
tr </home/bobg/usg.txt "\n" " "
>>
>> 35 % 6.0 17.0 8 % 0.4 5.0
>>
>> That's the best solution yet. Not sure what it's doing but will look at
>> the man page again when I am fully awake.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>
> The tr command reads from stdin (that's the output of cat) and
> transforms all new line chars to blanks (see "man tr"), so all lines
> will be concatenated (by a blank char) to *one* line.
>
Yes, I kept wondering, if there was a way to change the "new line" to a
space, tab, comma, whatever but I couldn't see how. Obviously I lack the
skill to do the things I want ...
Thanks to all.
Bob
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