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Old 08-23-2011, 05:58 PM   #1
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fbout (redirect stdout to eink)

for developers, sysadmins.
given a command it will echo the output to your eink display.
it does it quick and dirty:

it is designed to monitor an active command (like tail -f).
it will output one line per pipe flush.
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You. Rock.
I was gonna ask how hard it would be for you to put something like this together.
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Old 08-26-2011, 01:06 AM   #3
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Old 08-26-2011, 07:33 PM   #4
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Hey dude what is the info displayed in brackets at the beginning of the output of every fbout instance? Can it be hidden? *grin*

If it were possible to replace the question-mark-like EOL character with a more solid block, that would be awesome... wouldn't it?
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Old 08-26-2011, 07:39 PM   #5
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the info in the brackets is the last thousand seconds and thousand milliseconds of the epoch.

if you've ever looked at your kprintfs (assuming your kernel was compiled with the option) you will see uptime next to the status message (seconds.microseconds).

this is a ten minute debugging app; it's not really going to get a lot of my attention. =]

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Hey dude what is the info displayed in brackets at the beginning of the output of every fbout instance? Can it be hidden? *grin*

If it were possible to replace the question-mark-like EOL character with a more solid block, that would be awesome... wouldn't it?
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Old 08-26-2011, 07:49 PM   #6
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I see. Coolio.
For the record, I see quite a use for it, outside of simple debugging. At the moment, I use it for various random launchpad + nix commands, but I've also got a suite of scripts to manage kinamp/mplayer: toggling shuffle/repeat, skipping between different genres & albums .... and I love getting on-screen feedback for that stuff. It works beautifully well enough as it is though--I was just being perfectionist.
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you should post them.

scripts are applications, too.

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I see. Coolio.
For the record, I see quite a use for it, outside of simple debugging. At the moment, I use it for various random launchpad + nix commands, but I've also got a suite of scripts to manage kinamp/mplayer: toggling shuffle/repeat, skipping between different genres & albums .... and I love getting on-screen feedback for that stuff. It works beautifully well enough as it is though--I was just being perfectionist.
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I figured I would eventually... I always share my scripts. I've been tweaking them heavily every other day though.

Did you tell people to put your apps in /mnt/us/system just for simplicity? I run kaffeine & kinamp & fbout so much that it made the code so much cleaner-looking to get them in my path. Is there a reason you know of why I shouldn't add things to /usr/bin? I haven't had any probs yet, but I haven't taken the time to snoop everywhere yet.
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for developers, sysadmins.
given a command it will echo the output to your eink display.
it does it quick and dirty:

it is designed to monitor an active command (like tail -f).
it will output one line per pipe flush.
How do you give it a command, ./fbout command or command | ./fbout or what?
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Old 08-27-2011, 01:22 PM   #10
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i try to avoid modifying the root file system.

0) i am of the opinion that when i boot my kindle it ought to work; making changes to the root file system is the best way to make it do otherwise. =]

1) there are heavy space constraints on the root file system.
iirc, vanilla it has about 150 mb free.

2) if you want an exe in your path, use a symlink.

3) if you want a userspace folder in your path, modify /etc/profile.

in short, there isn't any really good reason to modify the root filesystem for drop-in executables and the first rule of *nix administration is to minimize the use of privileged operations. qed, i don't modify the root filesystem.

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I figured I would eventually... I always share my scripts. I've been tweaking them heavily every other day though.

Did you tell people to put your apps in /mnt/us/system just for simplicity? I run kaffeine & kinamp & fbout so much that it made the code so much cleaner-looking to get them in my path. Is there a reason you know of why I shouldn't add things to /usr/bin? I haven't had any probs yet, but I haven't taken the time to snoop everywhere yet.
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the complete answer to this question is complicated.

i usually use it like this:
# while sleep 1; do awk '{ print $15 }' /proc/`pgrep cvm`/stat; done|/tmp/fbout

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you can think of it a little like a cross between
# watch ls
and
# ls|xargs
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one thing i REALLY hate about shell scripting is that it's so cryptic.
if C is beautiful, and it is, bash and perl are on the wrong end of the ugly stick in a hurricane.

let me explicate this bit of code.

while sleep 1:
loop until interrupt at one second intervals

; do
now the body of the loop

awk '{ print $15 }'
print the fifteenth column of a file

`pgrep cvm`
the pid of cvm (the java framework)

/proc/`pgrep cvm`/stat
the name of the file is:
/proc/4455/stat
if the pid of the cvm process is 4455

the stat file holds process statistics for a process.
column 15 of this file is the user mode jiffies (think cpu cycles used) for the process.
more info on the stat file.

; done
end of the loop body

|/tmp/fbout
send the output of this loop to the framebuffer.

putting the pipe at the end of the loop instead of here:
# while sleep 1; do awk '{ print $15 }' /proc/`pgrep cvm`/stat|/tmp/fbout; done

causes executions of the command to reuse the pipe instead of reopening it every time.

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the complete answer to this question is complicated.

i usually use it like this:
# while sleep 1; do awk '{ print $15 }' /proc/`pgrep cvm`/stat; done|/tmp/fbout
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i usually use it like this:
# while sleep 1; do awk '{ print $15 }' /proc/`pgrep cvm`/stat; done|/tmp/fbout
hummmm...

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you can think of it a little like a cross between
# watch ls
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# ls|xargs
...better...

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one thing i REALLY hate about shell scripting is that it's so cryptic.
if C is beautiful, and it is, bash and perl are on the wrong end of the ugly stick in a hurricane.
let me explicate this bit of code.
[explanation snip ]
...Ahhh, now I see! Thanks for taking the time.
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