Re: script for $vm_stat

[email protected] (Gaurav Vaidya) Sat, 6 Dec 2008 01:41:46 +0800

Newsgroups	perl.macosx
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi pano.irk,

On Dec 5, 2008, at 3:40 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> $ vm_stat
> [snip]
>
> Like this:
> $perl script.pl
> Pages free:248491 Pages active: 345632 Pages inactive: 306207 Pages
> wired down:146885 "Translation faults": 598998500 Pages copy-on-write:
> 42312589 Pages zero filled: 64106 Pages reactivated:64106 Pageins:
> 243273 Pageouts: 84934 Object cache:15930737

You want:
	vm_stat | perl -ne 'print "$1:$2 " if(/^\s*(.+)\s*:\s*(\d+).*$/)'

Although I'm not very sure why :-)

cheers,
Gaurav