[geeks] vmstat modification

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

wilby98 at yahoo.com writes:

>I am interested in running vmstat in a small xterm

>on my Debian Linux box. I would like to limit the

>output to 5 columns. Is there any way to do it?

>Maybe using awk or sed?

Hey, I do the same thing. PI, PO, US, SY, ID, right?
awk should do it. I had annoying buffering problems, so 
I gave up and wrote a c program to deal with vmstat's 
output.

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