[rrd-users] Re: Creating multiple DS in batch mode

[Dave Lugo]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Stephen Cheung wrote:
> 
> I have been tinkering with this for a while, using Perl, but being a novice,
> cannot figure out what the loop structure would be...
> 

I don't know perl (I keep meaning to learn it...), but something in sh 
would be:

#!/bin/sh
N=1
echo -n "rrdtool create file.rrd --step 300 " > outfile
until
 [ N = 2048 ]
 do
   echo -n  "DS:"$N":etc...etc....  " >> outfile
   N=`expr $N + 1`
done


(adjust the syntax as needed)

Regards,

Dave

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