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Perhaps he means a no installation way to show htop on a web-page? Assuming you have 'htop' installed, you can pipe it's output to seashells.io via `nc` (netca

• _joel 9y ago
  Indeed, anything can be piped in, i.e. while true;do date;sleep 1; done | nc seashells.io 1337
  • moehm 9y ago
    FYI, you can make it shorter by using sleep in while's condition, no need for while true. It does delay the first output though. while sleep 1; do date; done | ...
    • _joel 9y ago
      thanks for the tip, old habits die hard :)
    • rounce 9y ago
      Doesn't the difference lie in whether you want to run the command then sleep, or sleep first and then run the command?
      • namanyayg 9y ago
        > "It does delay the first output though"
        • dazmax 9y ago
          Could also do `while date;do sleep 1;done`
        • rounce 9y ago
          Yes, I was on about the reason for the delay.
    • jjwiseman 9y ago
      If you want short while :...
    • AdamJacobMuller 9y ago
      that's clever, i've never thought of it, interesting considering how many while true;do ...;sleep X;done loops i've done
• anishathalye 9y ago
  > Perhaps he means a no installation way to show htop on a web-page? Yup, exactly!