Hi,

I wrote the Automatik widget (you can find it at :
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php...&PHPSESSID=cae
To improve it, I would like to add this one-line script into a text sensor :

top -b -n 1 | head -12 | tail -6 | sed '/top/d' | awk '{ printf "%-12.12s %-4s %-4s %-3s\n" , $12,$9,$10,$2}'

When I type this in a shell, this gives me the expected output

To add it into a textsensor, I did the following into my python file

test="\"top -b -n 1 | head -12 | tail -6 | sed '/top/d' | awk '{ printf (\"%10.10s %-8s %-8s %-5s\" , $12,$9,$10,$2)}' \" "
prog='sensor=program program='+test+' interval=4000 '

karamba.setTextSensor(widget, TopSensorText1, prog)


prog then equals to :
sensor=program program="top -b -n 1 | head -12 | tail -6 | sed '/top/d' | awk '{ printf ("%10.10s %-8s %-8s %-5s" , $12,$9,$10,$2)}' " interval=4000

But when I launch superkaramba, it complains about not finding the proper quote.

/bin/bash: -c: line 0: Caractère de fin de fichier (EOF) prématuré lors de la recherche du « ' » correspondant
/bin/bash: -c: line 1: Erreur de syntaxe : fin de fichier prématurée


Clearly the problem is the double-quote in the bash script. I cannot remove the double-quote because printf does not work anymore.

The script below works fine:
test="\"top -b -n 1 | head -12 | tail -6 | sed \'/top/d\' | awk \'{ print $12,$9,$10,$2 }' | column -t \""

Does any bash/superkaramba guru how to find to find a work-around ? I spent a week on that, and I am running dry.

Thanks

Fabien

Hi. I'm not an expert, but as you already pointed out the problem is due to any double quote appearing inside the test string (which is embedded in double quotes by itself), isn't it? Well.. I can only suggest an alternative which doesn't need mandatory double quotes:
This uses the bash built-in printf for which you can use single quotes as well. The arguments - passed through command substitution - are from the ps command, which let you select the output fields. You can compare it with the results of the top command and eventually refine the query and/or the format string. Hope this helps.

Would seem you are looking for command substitution but are not using the right tools (apologise if I have misunderstood)

Should be:
You can of course use the backticks (``) but I think this is clearer.

Hi !

Thanks for the quick reply and your answer

Actually, I found a way between the two replies and it works fine.

I wanted to use top (ps is not accurate enough)
here is the tweaked line :
printf '%-12.12s %6s %6s %-8.15s\n' $(top -b -n 1 | head -11 | tail -5 | sed '/top/d' | awk '{print $12,$9,$10,$2}')

Thanks to both of you for the help

Fabien