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