geekTool Post: 302216984

Sponsored Content

Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers geekTool Post 302216984 by MastaFue on Monday 21st of July 2008 04:59:25 PM

07-21-2008

Registered User

geekTool

Hello!

Here is my problem:

I try to display the uptime of my computer on my desktop with the help of a tool called GeekTool (for Mac).
I want the uptime output to look like that:
x day(s) y h z min (but if the pc is only running e.g for several minutes it should leave out the day and the hours)
For that reason I using the command "uptime" in a modified version:

uptime | awk '{sub(",", "min ", $5); sub(":", "h ", $5); sub("day,", " day", $4); sub("days,", " days ", $4); sub("mins,", "min", $4); sub("min,", "min", $4); sub("hrs,", "h", $4); sub(":", "h ", $3); sub(",", "min", $3); sub("2", "", $4); sub("1", "", $4); print "uptime : " $3$4$5}'

but this piece of code only works until I reach a uptime of one day or more because than it displays only the day, not the hours and minutes.

So I tried this code

uptime | awk '{sub("2 users", " ", $6); sub(",", " ", $6); sub("mins", "min ", $6); sub(",", "min ", $5); sub(":", "h ", $5); sub("day,", " day", $4); sub("days,", " days ", $4); sub("mins,", "min", $4); sub("min,", "min", $4); sub("hrs,", "h", $4); sub(":", "h ", $3); sub(",", "min", $3); sub("2", "", $4); sub("1", "", $4); print "uptime : " $3$4$5$6}'

But this somehow does not work properly because it shows the number of users currently logged on. so my question is how can I modify my command to display the uptime like that: x day(s) y h z min (no matter how long my computer is turned on)
And is there a niftier command than awk to the same job.
sorry for my weird question but I am new at unix.
I hope someone can help me.
Thank you in advance!

MastaFue

View Public Profile for MastaFue

Find all posts by MastaFue

We Also Found This Discussion For You

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

GeekTool

Hello to whoever is reading this! I try to display my uptime on my desktop with a program called GeekTool. For that purpose I use this command uptime | awk '{print "Uptime : " $3 " " }' So it looks like this Uptime : 3:01, My first question is how to remove the comma behind the...

LEARN ABOUT CENTOS

uptime

UPTIME(1)							   User Commands							 UPTIME(1)

NAME

       uptime - Tell how long the system has been running.

SYNOPSIS

       uptime [options]

DESCRIPTION

       uptime  gives  a one line display of the following information.	The current time, how long the system has been running, how many users are
       currently logged on, and the system load averages for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes.

       This is the same information contained in the header line displayed by w(1).

       System load averages is the average number of processes that are either in a runnable or uninterruptable state.	A process  in  a  runnable
       state is either using the CPU or waiting to use the CPU.  A process in uninterruptable state is waiting for some I/O access, eg waiting for
       disk.  The averages are taken over the three time intervals.  Load averages are not normalized for the number of CPUs in  a  system,  so  a
       load average of 1 means a single CPU system is loaded all the time while on a 4 CPU system it means it was idle 75% of the time.

OPTIONS

       -p, --pretty
	      show uptime in pretty format

       -h, --help
	      display this help text

       -s, --since
	      system up since, in yyyy-mm-dd MM:HH:SS format

       -V, --version
	      display version information and exit

FILES

       /var/run/utmp
	      information about who is currently logged on

       /proc  process information

AUTHORS

       uptime was written by Larry Greenfield <greenfie@gauss.rutgers.edu> and Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@sunsite.unc.edu>

SEE ALSO

       ps(1), top(1), utmp(5), w(1)

REPORTING BUGS

       Please send bug reports to <procps@freelists.org>

procps-ng							   December 2012							 UPTIME(1)

We Also Found This Discussion For You

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

GeekTool

Discussion started by: MastaFue

LEARN ABOUT CENTOS

uptime