use strict; use warnings; sub get_measures { my $data = `/sbin/ifconfig | grep “RX bytes” | head -1`; $data =~ /RX bytes\:(\d+) .*TX bytes\:(\d+) .*/; my $recv = $1/1024; my $sent=$2/1024; $recv =~ s/\..*//; $sent =~ s/\..*//; #printf “received:%s KB transmitted:%s KB”,$recv,$sent;$_=”"; return ($recv,$sent); } my @m1 = get_measures; sleep 1; my @m2 = get_measures; my @rates = ($m2[0] - $m1[0], $m2[1]-$m1[1]); foreach (’ received’ , ‘ transmit’) { printf “$_ rate:%sKB”,shift @rates; } no comments yet