#!/bin/sh big="\033[11m" reset="\033[0m" update() { sum=0 for arg; do read -r i <"$arg" sum=$((sum + i)) done cache=/tmp/${1##*/} [ -f "$cache" ] && read -r old <"$cache" || old=0 printf "%b" "$sum\n" >"$cache" printf "%b" "$((sum - old))\n" } rx=$(update /sys/class/net/[ew]*/statistics/rx_bytes) tx=$(update /sys/class/net/[ew]*/statistics/tx_bytes) printf "%b%5sB %b%5sB%b" "$big$reset" "$(numfmt --to=iec "$rx")" "$big$reset" "$(numfmt --to=iec "$tx")" "\n"