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| author | Nicholas Marriott <nicholas.marriott@gmail.com> | 2009-11-23 09:53:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Nicholas Marriott <nicholas.marriott@gmail.com> | 2009-11-23 09:53:24 +0000 |
| commit | 727fdb44a0bc7f2dc3180fb5abf8379a3e4706b8 (patch) | |
| tree | 4bab85966dbbc304e61cd54b97d9f08c02a3fc56 /FAQ | |
| parent | 3cb0c8e6508c25530fdf0b0aef4b0402af954f49 (diff) | |
+load average.
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@@ -201,4 +201,12 @@ on the Window -> Translation configuration page. For example, change UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 or CP437. It may also be necessary to adjust the way PuTTY treats line drawing characters in the lower part of the same configuration page. -$Id: FAQ,v 1.29 2009-08-08 20:46:26 nicm Exp $ +* What is the best way to display the load average? Why no #L? + +It isn't possible to get the load average portably in code and it is preferable +not to add portability goop. The following works on at least Linux, *BSD and OS +X: + +uptime|awk '{split(substr($0, index($0, "load")), a, ":"); print a[2]}' + +$Id: FAQ,v 1.30 2009-11-23 09:53:24 nicm Exp $ |