Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts

[Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>]

Greg Wooledge wrote on 03/06/17 14:38:
> On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 05:25:49PM +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>> If you need floating point numbers, bc (or dc) are your next stops.
> 
> Or awk.  For some problems, awk is fantastic.
> 

Yes, it helps to sample the number of "bytes" like so:

owl1=$(awk '/usb0/ {print $2}' /proc/net/dev)

# insert process to be measured

bytes=$(awk "/usb0/ {print (\$2 - $owl1)}" /proc/net/dev)


Regards,
jvp.