# Build a memory graph in linux terminal

I was searching for a terminal based graph of usage of memory but I couldn't find one, so I built it using simple bash and python.

First create a directory called `mem` and enter it with `cd mem`

Then run the daemon part of the monitor:

```
while true; do free -m | head -2 | tail -1 | awk '{print $3}' > `date +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z'`; sleep 1; done
```

To actually build the graph, use this:

```
watch -n1 'for f in `ls -r | head -30`; do num=`cat $f`; python -c "print(\"{} {}\".format(\"$f: $num\", \".\" * ($num/10)))"; done'
```

And the result is something like this:

```
2018-07-11T11:26:36+0000: 330 .................................
2018-07-11T11:26:35+0000: 316 ...............................
2018-07-11T11:26:34+0000: 285 ............................
2018-07-11T11:26:33+0000: 236 .......................
2018-07-11T11:26:32+0000: 235 .......................
2018-07-11T11:26:31+0000: 236 .......................
2018-07-11T11:26:30+0000: 236 .......................
2018-07-11T11:26:29+0000: 238 .......................
2018-07-11T11:26:28+0000: 236 .......................
2018-07-11T11:26:27+0000: 236 .......................
2018-07-11T11:26:26+0000: 240 ........................
2018-07-11T11:26:25+0000: 236 .......................
2018-07-11T11:26:24+0000: 236 .......................
2018-07-11T11:26:23+0000: 236 .......................
2018-07-11T11:26:22+0000: 239 .......................
2018-07-11T11:26:21+0000: 236 .......................
2018-07-11T11:26:20+0000: 343 ..................................
2018-07-11T11:26:19+0000: 330 .................................
2018-07-11T11:26:18+0000: 327 ................................
2018-07-11T11:26:17+0000: 313 ...............................
2018-07-11T11:26:16+0000: 287 ............................
2018-07-11T11:26:15+0000: 238 .......................
2018-07-11T11:26:14+0000: 236 .......................
2018-07-11T11:26:13+0000: 236 .......................
2018-07-11T11:26:12+0000: 237 .......................
2018-07-11T11:26:11+0000: 236 .......................
2018-07-11T11:26:10+0000: 236 .......................
2018-07-11T11:26:09+0000: 236 .......................
2018-07-11T11:26:08+0000: 240 ........................
2018-07-11T11:26:07+0000: 237 .......................

```