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Ok, i admit, i never learned awk ... seems quite powerful, too

Quote:

Originally Posted by zirias (Post 4038469)

Ok, i admit, i never learned awk ... seems quite powerful, too

perls little brother, if you wish ... ;}

I have started developing the script as said.

This is how my script looks.
it takes the output of free -m and insert into a file for given amount of time.

Code:

#!/bin/bash



echo "Enter Time Interval"

read inputtime



rm -rf /tmp/raminfo

i=0

echo "RAM Information for last $inputtime Seconds" > /tmp/raminfo

while [ $i -le $inputtime ]

do

free -m | grep Mem >> /tmp/raminfo

sleep 1

i=$( expr $i + 1 )

done

Output.

Code:

# ./test

Enter Time Interval

10

# cat /tmp/raminfo

RAM Information for last 10 Seconds

Mem:          503        468        34          0        58        260

Mem:          503        468        34          0        58        260

Mem:          503        468        34          0        58        260

Mem:          503        468        34          0        58        260

Mem:          503        468        34          0        58        260

Mem:          503        468        34          0        58        260

Mem:          503        468        34          0        58        260

Mem:          503        468        34          0        58        260

Mem:          503        468        34          0        58        260

Mem:          503        468        34          0        58        260

Mem:          503        468        34          0        58        260

How would i create and attach new column indicating RAM utilization.
This can be done by taking col3/col2 but i m getting following error.

Code:

# cat /tmp/raminfo | awk '{print $3/$2}'

awk: (FILENAME=- FNR=1) fatal: division by zero attempted

1) The error is probably coming from this line:

Code:

RAM Information for last 10 Seconds

Which is the first line of the file, and which AWK is interpreting (or trying to) as numbers, which it is not, hence division by zero. You need a method of skipping over that first line of the file, or selecting only the lines which actually have the numerical data that you want. Also, AWK can read files all by itself, so you don't really need that `cat` there. I would try something like below, which places a simple regexp (regular expression) into the awk, which will match only the lines beginning with "Mem:" and ignore the rest:

Code:

awk '/^Mem:/ { print $3 / $2}' /tmp/raminfo

2) I'm not sure if the desired output you want from this is a XX/YY format, or if you actually planned to do that division operation $3/$2, but if you want the division thing, you may wish to multiply the result by 100 to get a percent, which would be maybe more pleasing to the eye. OR, if you just want a display of XX/YY then you'll need to put the / into "double quotes".

3) Finally a suggestion/idea which is maybe just a matter of preference for me: when doing simple shell math, you could use i=$((i+1)) instead of i=$( expr $i + 1 ) if for no other reason than that there are three less characters to type :D but it's up to you.

Cheers!

Quote:

Originally Posted by GrapefruiTgirl (Post 4039270)

1) The error is probably coming from this line:

Code:

RAM Information for last 10 Seconds

Code:

awk '/^Mem:/ { print $3 / $2}' /tmp/raminfo

Thanks for your help.