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Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

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Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

Overview of this book

The shell remains one of the most powerful tools on a computer system — yet a large number of users are unaware of how much one can accomplish with it. Using a combination of simple commands, we will see how to solve complex problems in day to day computer usage.Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook, Second Edition will take you through useful real-world recipes designed to make your daily life easy when working with the shell. The book shows the reader how to effectively use the shell to accomplish complex tasks with ease.The book discusses basics of using the shell, general commands and proceeds to show the reader how to use them to perform complex tasks with ease.Starting with the basics of the shell, we will learn simple commands with their usages allowing us to perform operations on files of different kind. The book then proceeds to explain text processing, web interaction and concludes with backups, monitoring and other sysadmin tasks.Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook, Second Edition serves as an excellent guide to solving day to day problems using the shell and few powerful commands together to create solutions.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Measuring and optimizing power usage


Power consumption is one of the factors that one must keep on monitoring, especially on mobile devices, such as notebook computers, tablets, and so on. There are few tools available for Linux systems to measure power consumption, one such command is powertop which we are going to use for this recipe.

Getting ready

powertop doesn't come preinstalled with most Linux distributions, you will have to install it using your package manager.

How to do it...

Let's see how to use powertop to measure and optimize power consumption:

  1. Using powertop is pretty easy, just run:

    # powertop
    

    powertop will start taking some measurements and once it's done, it will show a screen which will have detailed information about power usage, the processes using the most power, and so on:

  2. For generating HTML reports, use:

    # powertop --html
    

    powertop will take measurements over a period of time and generate an HTML report with the default filename PowerTOP.html, which you can open using any...