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bwm-ng (command line bandwidth monitor)

May 21st, 2009 No comments

bwm-ng is a great little command line bandwidth monitor. HUGE fan. Its available with most all distros so use your favorite package manager to add it. Works on all *nix distributions including the Mac too.

bwm-ng home page: http://www.gropp.org/?id=projects&sub=bwm-ng

On the Mac it works great with a little application called GeekTool (will cover more later) with the following options:

/Users/derek/Applications/bwm-ng/bin/bwm-ng -o plain -c 1