[NTLUG:Discuss] More shell scripting madness

[Richard Geoffrion]

. Daniel wrote:
> I know it's hard to see, but I'm actually starting to learn this stuff 
> little by little.
>
>   
I understand COMPLETLY
> Here's the purpose:
>
> I upgraded the processor and video in my laptop.  Now it gets warmer than I 
> like,
Some have suggested using CPUFREQ instead of i8kfan, but I realize that
you are wanting maximum cpu speed with maximum cooling. I'll leave you
to figure out the "y" of how to do something.

> So I wrote a loop that checks the fan status every two seconds and if it's 
> not "2 2" it will set the fans to "2 2" and go back to sleep.  
>
> <snip for politeness>
>
> Here's what I'd like to add to it. 
>
> <more snippage.
>   

While a better more elegant solution most probably exists (Chris Cox
:->) The attached script should match the criteria for doing what you
asked. I think it's all there in educationally commented steps. It's not
a one liner..but something that can be used as a learning tool. I know
*I* learned some stuff. :)

Oh, and if you want to see the file without the comments, you can run:

sed '/^[[:space:]]*#/d;/^$/d <irc://irc.freenode.net/%23/d%3b/%5e%24/d>'
fanscript.txt

(unless you're irc nick is greycat, in which case the above command is
bad evil bad and doesn't work!)


-- 
Richard
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