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linux-total-cpu-usage.sh
#!/bin/bash
# This prints the total CPU usage for the whole system (in terms of number of cores used)
top -bn1 | tr -s " " | sed -r "s/^ //" | cut -d " " -f 9 | grep -E ^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$ | awk -v procs=`cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep cessor | wc -l` 'BEGIN{sum=0} {sum+=$0} END{print sum/procs}'
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