07-28-2008
thank you for the help and the explanation!
@Franklin52
your solution worked but I am not sure if it works if the computer has been on for more than 24 hours because then the string changes because the days are being added. So I will have to wait for a couple more hours to test your solution.
For now I am using this command
uptime | sed 's/.*up \(.*\),.*user.*/\1/' | awk '{sub(":", "h ", $0); sub(" ", "", $0);print "uptime: " $0 "min"}'
again I have to wait until my computer has been on for more than 24 hours to see if everything works fine.
But for now thanks a lot for the help. I will be back in a couple of hours to report whether the commands are working or not.
can someone please test the two commands (if your computer has been on for more than 24hours) I just mentioned in this post and post the outcome in the forum? that would be great because I might habe to restart my Computer so I will have to wait another 24 hours to test.
Update: the two above commands do not work! the first one does not work because the string changes as time advances so one cannot use $1, $2, $3.
the second does not work because it always prints min at the end and if I just started up the computer it prints something like that: x secsmin and x minsmin
So right now I am using this command
uptime | sed 's/.*up \(.*\),.*user.*/\1/' | awk '{sub(":", "h ", $0); sub(" mins", "min", $0); sub(" secs", "sec", $0); print "uptime@mac: " $0}'
It works fine until hours and probably days are displayed. How can I insert "min" after the minutes that are displayed? the "h" works fine because I always replace ":" but I do not know how to solve the problem with the min so it will display it properly at any time, no matter how long my computer has been running for.
Last edited by MastaFue; 07-28-2008 at 05:36 PM..
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time::progress
Progress(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Progress(3pm)
NAME
Time::Progress - Elapsed and estimated finish time reporting.
SYNOPSIS
use Time::Progress;
# autoflush to get
working
$| = 1;
# get new `timer'
my $p = new Time::Progress;
# restart and report progress
$p->restart;
sleep 5; # or do some work here
print $p->report( "done %p elapsed: %L (%l sec), ETA %E (%e sec)
", 50 );
# set min and max values
$p->attr( min => 2, max => 20 );
# restart `timer'
$p->restart;
my $c;
for( $c = 2; $c <= 20; $c++ )
{
# print progress bar and percentage done
print $p->report( "eta: %E min, %40b %p
", $c );
sleep 1; # work...
}
# stop timer
$p->stop;
# report times
print $p->elapsed_str;
DESCRIPTION
Shortest time interval that can be measured is 1 second. The available methods are:
new
my $p = new Time::Progress;
Returns new object of Time::Progress class and starts the timer. It also sets min and max values to 0 and 100, so the next report calls
will default to percents range.
restart
restarts the timer and clears the stop mark. optionally restart() may act also as attr() for setting attributes:
$p->restart( min => 1, max => 5 );
is the same as:
$p->attr( min => 1, max => 5 );
$p->restart();
If you need to count things, you can set just 'max' attribute since 'min' is already set to 0 when object is constructed by new():
$p->restart( max => 42 );
stop
Sets the stop mark. this is only useful if you do some work, then finish, then do some work that shouldn't be timed and finally report.
Something like:
$p->restart;
# do some work here...
$p->stop;
# do some post-work here
print $p->report;
# `post-work' will not be timed
Stop is useless if you want to report time as soon as work is finished like:
$p->restart;
# do some work here...
print $p->report;
continue
Clears the stop mark. (mostly useless, perhaps you need to restart?)
attr
Sets and returns internal values for attributes. Available attributes are:
min This is the min value of the items that will follow (used to calculate estimated finish time)
max This is the max value of all items in the even (also used to calculate estimated finish time)
format
This is the default report format. It is used if report is called without parameters.
attr returns array of the set attributes:
my ( $new_min, $new_max ) = $p->attr( min => 1, max => 5 );
If you want just to get values use undef:
my $old_format = $p->attr( format => undef );
This way of handling attributes is a bit heavy but saves a lot of attribute handling functions. attr will complain if you pass odd
number of parameters.
report
report is the most complex method in this package. :)
expected arguments are:
$p->report( format, [current_item] );
format is string that will be used for the result string. Recognized special sequences are:
%l elapsed seconds
%L elapsed time in minutes in format MM:SS
%e remaining seconds
%E remaining time in minutes in format MM:SS
%p percentage done in format PPP.P%
%f estimated finish time in format returned by localtime()
%b
%B progress bar which looks like:
##############......................
%b takes optional width:
%40b -- 40-chars wide bar
%9b -- 9-chars wide bar
%b -- 79-chars wide bar (default)
Parameters can be ommited and then default format set with attr will be used.
Sequences 'L', 'l', 'E' and 'e' can have width also:
%10e
%5l
...
Estimate time calculations can be used only if min and max values are set (see attr method) and current item is passed to report! if
you want to use the default format but still have estimates use it like this:
$p->format( undef, 45 );
If you don't give current item (step) or didn't set proper min/max value then all estimate sequences will have value `n/a'.
You can freely mix reports during the same event.
elapsed
estimate
helpers -- return elapsed/estimate seconds.
elapsed_str
estimate_str
helpers -- return elapsed/estimated string in format:
"elapsed time is MM:SS min.
"
"remaining time is MM:SS min.
"
all helpers need one argument--current item.
FORMAT EXAMPLES
# $c is current element (step) reached
# for the examples: min = 0, max = 100, $c = 33.3
print $p->report( "done %p elapsed: %L (%l sec), ETA %E (%e sec)
", $c );
# prints:
# done 33.3% elapsed time 0:05 (5 sec), ETA 0:07 (7 sec)
print $p->report( "%45b %p
", $c );
# prints:
# ###############.............................. 33.3%
print $p->report( "done %p ETA %f
", $c );
# prints:
# done 33.3% ETA Sun Oct 21 16:50:57 2001
AUTHOR
Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski "Cade"
<cade@biscom.net> <cade@datamax.bg> <cade@cpan.org>
http://cade.datamax.bg
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