What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth

Post by wyclif » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 3:13 AM UTC

aliveupstairs wrote: post #150

lostlogin wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m using multiple search engines more and more. Possibly this is due to me usually bypassing google to avoid the ad laden hits. A view with search results from a few sources comes to mind as a solution. Another back burner project.

You can do this with browser search engines, but as a DuckDuckGo user, I can !bang search_term (`!gh`, `!github` to search in github.) Now, I think DuckDuckGo is very lacking in terms of Zero-click searching, but if I know where to get information I can !bang to it (e.g., `!hn what`) or if you're feeling luck `\hn what` will open the first search result. Much better than spending an afternoon setting up search engine…

Post by superkuh » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 4:10 AM UTC

imsnif wrote: post #75

Hey, I am the author of "what" and am very happy to hear people like this tool I made. :) "what" was my first real attempt at rust, and I love the project very much. That said, it is a hobby project - and so I will likely be a few days responding to all issues and contributions that came from this thread. "what" has already received some great contributions that are major parts of the code base. I would be very happy…

Post by inetknght » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 6:22 AM UTC

anilgulecha wrote: post #34

lazyjones wrote: post #26

Bad naming.. WHAT(1) BSD General Commands Manual WHAT(1) NAME what -- show what versions of object modules were used to construct a file (MacOS ...)

This is in the top class of utilities (htopm etc). A good name could probably be bwtop, or tcptop or iftop. Actually I searched for these, and turns out iftop exists! ( https://linux.die.net/man/8/iftop )

Post by noisy_boy » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 6:45 AM UTC

pmontra wrote: post #42

I find the --raw output more useful than the interactive one. it scrolls away but I have time to read what's going on. The other one just disappears and is replaced by something else, which could be ok except sometimes there are seconds of useless black screen when nothing is going on. I suggest to never have blank screens. A suggestion for the raw output: add a timestamp at the beginning of the line. Probably HHMMSS…

Post by JdeBP » Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 9:38 AM UTC

Dowwie wrote: post #51

top of HN front page and without mentioning that it is written in Rust