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Hi all,
I have been learning linux and have a secondary monitor that I wanted to use for showing some sensor data. Currently I need to manually enter in three commands and then arrange my windows each time I want to look at (and start-up, etc). I am using the nethogs, inxi, and lm-sensors libraries:
sudo nethogs
watch -n1 "inxi -s"
watch -n1 "sensors | grep Tdie"
The end result looks something like this:
https://i.ibb.co/TgWXKSn/sensors.png
Is it possible/easy to script the opening of these three terminal windows and position them onto a specific monitor? Or is there a completely different better way to go about this?
Also, is there a way for me to custom arrange the data on the screen? Eg, could I put the sensors "Tdie" data into two columns and remove the "high = +70.0 C" info?
[Beyond this specific case, is there a general solution with, say, a directory containing a separate shell script for launching each program, with a master script that specifies terminal width/height as well as (x,y) coordinates? --Ed.]
(Score: 2) by boltronics on Monday January 21 2019, @10:20PM
You're not wrong, and it would even be more efficient, but isn't there a saying that goes something like "don't use awk when you can use sed, don't use sed when you can use grep, don't use grep when you can use tr, don't use tr when you can use cat"? It goes something like that, but I can't find it when I did a search.
Certainly one of the ideas behind such a saying would be efficiency (and since using sed anyway there would likely be no negative performance impact in continuing to use that - and probably even some improvement), but I suppose part of it is related to the improved readability of the syntax of the more simple tools.
It's GNU/Linux dammit!