bwbar(8)

bwbar8

Generates text and graphical readout of current bandwidth use.

Usage

bwbar [{-i | -o}] [{-g | -G | -k | -K | -m | -M}] [OPTION] ... INTERFACE MAX_MBPS

Overview

Generates text and graphical readout of current bandwidth use.

Options

-b, --border=N

Set border width of the graphical bar to N (default 1 pixel).

-d, --directory=N

Output directory is N.

-f, --text-file=N

Set N as name of the text output file (default ubar.txt).

-h, --help

Display usage.

-p, --png-file=N

Set N as name of the graphical bar file (default ubar.png).

-t, --interval=N

The poll interval in seconds is N (default 15 seconds).

-x, --width=N

Set the width of the graphical bar to N (default 600 pixels).

-y, --height=N

Set the height of the graphical bar to N (default 4 pixels).

Flags

-i, --input

Measure input bandwidth.

-g, --GBps

Bandwidth is measured in GB/s.

-G, --Gbps

Bandwidth is measured in Gbit/s.

-k, --kbps

Bandwidth is measured in kbit/s.

-K, --KBps

Bandwidth is measured in KB/s.

-m, --MBps

Bandwidth is measured in MB/s.

-M, --Mbps

Bandwidth is measured in Mbit/s.

-o, --output

Measure output bandwidth.

Default values are -M and -o.

Releases

Unchanged in 9 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch).

  1. 4.0–13

Author

Written by Nacho Barrientos Arias <[email protected]>.

Bugs

Report bugs to <[email protected]>.

From bwbar 1.2.3-7+b2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.