+load average.

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ISO-8859-1 or CP437. It may also be necessary to adjust the way PuTTY treats
line drawing characters in the lower part of the same configuration page.
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* What is the best way to display the load average? Why no #L?
It isn't possible to get the load average portably in code and it is preferable
not to add portability goop. The following works on at least Linux, *BSD and OS
X:
uptime|awk '{split(substr($0, index($0, "load")), a, ":"); print a[2]}'
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