Initial commit of the script

Currently supports specifying number of clients to call pages (default 1),
custom destination (duh), and a custom output file (default forkload.out).

Still need to write the help text function

2 files changed, 48 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
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+*.out
diff --git a/forkload b/forkload
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index 0000000..93f22f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/forkload
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+function get_help {
+  echo "This needs to be written"
+}
+
+function main {
+  argv=(${@})
+
+  out="forkload.out"
+  clients=1
+  dest=""
+
+  # Parse arguments
+  for (( i = 0; i < ${#argv[*]}; i++ )); do
+    val=${argv[$i]}
+    if [[ ${val} == "-o" || ${val} == "--output" ]]; then
+      i=$((i+1))
+      out=${argv[$i]}
+    elif [[ ${val} == "-c" || ${val} == "--clients" ]]; then
+      i=$((i+1))
+      clients=${argv[$i]}
+    elif [[ ${val} == "-d" || ${val} == "--dest" ]]; then
+      i=$((i+1))
+      dest=${argv[$i]}
+    fi
+  done
+  
+  # Verify needed variables
+  if [[ -z ${dest} ]]; then
+    echo -e "\nPlease specify a destination URL to test (-d,--dest)."
+    echo -e "See the help text (-h,--help) for more details.\n"
+    exit
+  fi
+
+
+  # Clean up the out file
+  :> ${out}
+
+  for (( i = 0; i < ${clients}; i++ )); do
+    echo "Client ${i}";
+    # Fork, time the page download
+    { ( time curl -s ${dest} > /dev/null & ) } 2>> ${out}
+  done
+}
+
+main "${@}"