Snippets of Bash code to use in GeekTool shell widgets

GeekTool hardware

### HARDWARE METRICS
# Note: to use these snippets, you must first
# install the iStats gem with the following code:
sudo gem install iStats

## All metrics:
# with "danger bars":
istats
# without "danger bars":
istats | sed 's/[▁▂▃▅▆▇]//g' | sed 's/\[[0-9;]*[a-zA-Z]//g' | sed 's/[^A-z0-9%-\.°]\{1,\}/ /g'

## CPU temperature
# with "danger bars":
istats | grep "CPU temp"
# temperature only:
istats | grep "CPU temp" | awk '{ print $3 }'
# custom label:
istats | grep "CPU temp" | awk '{ print "<YOUR TEXT HERE>: " $3 }'

## Battery temperature
istats | grep "Battery temp"
# temperature only:
istats | grep "Battery temp" | awk '{ print $3 }'
# custom label:
istats | grep "Battery temp" | awk '{ print "<YOUR TEXT HERE>: " $3 }'

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Bash snippets to use in GeekTool

GeekTool uptime

uptime | awk '{
if ($4=="mins,")
	print $3 " minutes since last reboot";
else if ($4=="days," || $4=="day,")
{
	sub(",", " minutes", $5);
	if ($5 ~ /^1\:/) sub(":", " hour, ", $5); else
	sub(":", " hours, ", $5);
	print $3 " " $4 " " $5 " since last reboot";
}
else if ($4=="hrs,")
{
	sub(" hrs,", "hours", $4);
	print $3 " " $4 " since last reboot";
}
else if ($4=="hour,")
{
	sub(",", "", $4);
	print $3 " " $4 " since last reboot";
}
else
{
	sub(",", " minutes", $3);
	if ($3 ~ /^1\:*/) sub(":", " hour, ", $3); else
	sub(":", " hours, ", $3);
	print $3 " since last reboot";
}
}'