Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 09:25:16 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extracting the 1-minute loadavg in a portable yet low-impact fashion Message-ID: <20020814092516.D11913@seekingfire.com> In-Reply-To: <20020814144729.GA50066@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@allantgroup.com on Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 09:47:29AM -0500 References: <20020814083253.C11913@seekingfire.com> <20020814144729.GA50066@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 09:47:29AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Aug 14), Tillman Hodgson said:
> > uptime | awk '{print $10}' works, but leaves a trailing comma. Adding
> > a sed statement to the end of that would start to get too expensive.
>
> That actually won't work, since if the system has been up for under an
> hour, you get
>
> 9:43AM up 28 mins, 6 users, load averages: 0.28, 0.67, 0.43
>
> How about uptime | sed -e 's/.*: \([0-9.]*\).*/\1/' ? That should work
> on any system where the loadavg is immediately preceded by ": ", which
> is every OS I can lay my hands on at the moment.
Works on every OS I have available too, thanks muchly :-)
- Tillman
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