While loop to pretty print system load (1, 5 & 15 minutes) 

while [ 1 == 1 ]; do  cat /proc/loadavg | awk '{printf "1 minute load: %.2f\n", $(NF-5)}' && cat /proc/loadavg |awk '{printf "5 minute load: %.2f\n", $(NF-3)}' && cat /proc/loadavg |awk '{printf "15 minute load: %.2f\n", $(NF-2)}'; sleep 3; date; done

August 30, 2018 — peek2much3

Explanation

top is great but this will make it easier to read and makes it easy to pipe to text file for historical review. kill with ctrl+c

system-monitoring load-average
while cat sleep awk date

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While loop to pretty print system load (1, 5 & 15 minutes) 

while :; do date; awk '{printf "1 minute load: %.2f\n", $1; printf "5 minute load: %.2f\n", $2; printf "15 minute load: %.2f\n", $3}' /proc/loadavg; sleep 3; done

September 5, 2018 — bashoneliners