William's Workbench

Bandwidth Monitor (Submit Answer)

Create a script in the language of your choice to monitor transmit and receive bandwidth in bytes per second. The script should accept two arguments, the interface to monitor and the interval it is checked (in seconds). Output should be in CSV format to STDOUT with the following fields: Timestamp,Interface,RX Bytes/sec,TX Bytes/sec.

Example output:

wriley@behemoth:~$ BWMon --interface eth0 --interval 2
Timestamp,Interface,RX Bytes/Sec,TX Bytes/Sec
2007-05-16 09:10:16,eth0,2043,0
2007-05-16 09:10:18,eth0,1963,0
2007-05-16 09:10:20,eth0,1518,0
2007-05-16 09:10:22,eth0,2304,0
2007-05-16 09:10:24,eth0,1326,0

Shell Word Count (Submit Answer)

Create a bash shell script that when given a filename as the first argument will print out the number of words in the filename. The filename can be any text file and a word is defined as a sequence of one or more printable characters, not including whitespace characters.