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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem with Argument Passing Post 302088491 by System Shock on Tuesday 12th of September 2006 07:34:29 PM
Old 09-12-2006
My question to you is why you want to complicate your life with this?
iostat, sar, and vmstat they all take <interval> and <count> as arguments. If you want to run them all in one script, merely do:
Code:
# cat unix_stats.sh
iostat $1 $2
vmstat $1 $2
sar $1 $2

and run it like
Code:
# unix_stats <interval> <count>

If you want to get the output of just one command, then just use the command.
 

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SA2(8)								Linux User's Manual							    SA2(8)

NAME
sa2 - Write a daily report in the /var/log/sa directory. SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/sa/sa2 DESCRIPTION
The sa2 command is a shell procedure variant of the sar command which writes a daily report in the /var/log/sa/sardd file, where the dd parameter indicates the current day. The sa2 command handles all of the flags and parameters of the sar command. The sa2 command is designed to be started automatically by the cron command. EXAMPLES
To run the sa2 command daily, place the following entry in your root or adm crontab file: 5 19 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -A & This will generate a daily report called /var/log/sa/sardd It will also remove reports more than one week old. FILES
/var/log/sa/sardd Indicate the daily report file, where the dd parameter is a number representing the day of the month. AUTHOR
Sebastien Godard <sebastien.godard@wanadoo.fr> SEE ALSO
sar(1), sadc(8), sa1(8), mpstat(1), iostat(1), vmstat(8) http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sebastien.godard/ Linux DECEMBER 1999 SA2(8)
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