Alright, here is a patch for option 1 (seeing how option 2b is not possible with pacman). This removes the -f opt, adds the -t opt, and formats output times to 2 decimal points. Scott --- /usr/bin/rankmirrors 2007-03-04 10:35:29.000000000 -0700 +++ rankmirrors 2007-03-04 13:58:10.000000000 -0700 @@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ "speed. Pacman mirror files are located in /etc/pacman.d/. It " \ "can also rank one mirror if the URL is provided." parser = OptionParser(usage = usage, description = description) - parser.add_option("-f", "--formatted", action = "store_true", - dest = "formatted", default = False, - help = "output in mirror file format") + parser.add_option("-t", "--times", action = "store_true", + dest = "times", default = False, + help = "output only response times for mirrors") parser.add_option("-n", type = "int", dest = "num", default = 0, help = "number of servers to output, 0 for all") parser.add_option("-u", "--url", action = "store_true", dest = "url", @@ -88,25 +88,25 @@ fl = open(args[0], 'r') serverToTime = {} - if options.formatted: + if options.times: + print 'Querying servers, this may take some time...' + else: print "# Server list generated by rankmirrors on", print datetime.date.today() - else: - print 'Querying servers, this may take some time...' for ln in fl.readlines(): splitted = ln.split('=') if splitted[0].strip() != 'Server': - if options.formatted: + if not options.times: print ln, continue serverUrl = splitted[1].strip() if serverUrl[-1] == '\n': serverUrl = serverUrl[0:-1] - if options.verbose and options.formatted: + if options.verbose and not options.times: print '#',serverUrl,'...', elif options.verbose: print serverUrl,'...', - elif not options.formatted: + elif options.times: print ' * ', sys.stdout.flush() serverToTime[serverUrl] = timeCmd(getFuncToTime(serverUrl)) @@ -118,13 +118,16 @@ numToShow = int(options.num) if numToShow == 0: numToShow = len(items) if len(items) > 0: - if options.formatted: + if options.times: + print + print ' Servers sorted by time (seconds):' for i in items[0:numToShow]: - print 'Server =', i[0] + try: + print "%.2f" % i[1], ':', i[0] + except: + print i[1], ':', i[0] else: - print - print ' Servers sorted by time:' for i in items[0:numToShow]: - print i[1], ':', i[0] + print 'Server =', i[0] # vim: set ts=4 sw=4 et: