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This miniscule script is a hack to return the current CPU load.
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getload.sh
#!/bin/bash
# getload
#
# This miniscule script is a hack to return the current
# CPU load. It is simply stripping off the first
# value returned from loadavg.
cat /proc/loadavg | head -n1 | cut -d " " -f1
exit 0
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