ticker

     printf "%.2f", $fl/66 if $opt_p && $opt_l;
     printf "%s/s", rate(($fl-$fl1)/($time -$^T)) 
        if $time > $^T && $opt_r;

• Now what is this all about?

• Apparently -pl prints the report in pages instead of lines

• Apparently -r prints the rate at which data is arriving in the file

• Here is the absurdly overengineered rate function:

        sub rate {
          my $r = shift;
          my @m = (1000000000, 1000000, 1000, 1, .0001, .0000001);
          my @l = ('G', 'M', 'k', '', 'm', 'u');
          for (0 .. $#m) {
            if ($r >= $m[$_]) {
              return sprintf "%.2f%s", $r/$m[$_], $l[$_];
            }
          }
        }

• The rate comes out as something like 13.23k/s

• To support this, the program must track $fl1

• I had forgotten all about this until I started writing this class

• Oh well

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