rate: Continuously display rate of change of numbers in a file. (e.g. counts in /proc/* stats files) Usage: rate Options: -f Watch (Default: /proc/net/dev) -s Sleep seconds between updates (Default: 2) -w Width of floating point field (Default: 1) -x Start the process up in an xterm of just about the right size. -ro Show the rate only, not the total counts. -both Show both the total stats and the rates. (Default) -net Watch /proc/net/dev -inter Watch /proc/interrupts -stat Watch /proc/stat Notes: If "file" is a command like "ls -l foo|", then the rates for the command output will be measured. In this case the rate of growth of the file can be seen.