In BASH how can i find my system on active internet interface, what is the upload speed?

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Published on 2012-03-24T10:57:43Z Indexed on 2012/03/24 11:30 UTC
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I am trying to write an TUI bandwidth trace application which on query can instantly tell me, that my download and upload speed is XXXX. I have figured out that download i can use with wget and parse it using BASH, but how do i get the upload speed?

Example of download parse method:

1) Remote download : wget http://x.x.com:7007/files/software/vnc.zip

Length: 1594344 (1.5M) [application/zip]
Saving to: `vnc.zip'

100%[==================================================================>] 1,594,344    573K/s   in 2.7s    

2012-03-24 11:35:22 (573 KB/s) - `vnc.zip' saved [1594344/1594344]

2) Local download tells

Length: 1594344 (1.5M) [application/zip]
Saving to: `vnc.zip'

100%[==================================================================>] 1,594,344   --.-K/s   in 0.1s    

2012-03-24 06:43:04 (11.4 MB/s) - `vnc.zip' saved [1594344/1594344]

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