Merge pull request statsd#109 from shaftoe/master

Add a basic CLI bash client to example directory

examples/README.md

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Here's a bunch of example code contributed by the communinty for interfacing wit
     python_example.py - Python
     ruby_example.rb   - Ruby
     statsd.erl        - Erlang
+    statsd-client.sh  - Bash
 
 Third Party StatsD Libraries
 ============================

examples/statsd-client.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Very simple bash client to send metrics to a statsd server
+# Example with gauge:  ./statsd-client.sh 'my_metric:100|g'
+#
+# Alexander Fortin <[email protected]>
+#
+STATSD="statsd-ip-address"
+PORT="8125"
+
+if [ $# -ne 1 ]
+then
+  echo "Syntax: $0 '<gauge_data_for_statsd>'"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# Setup UDP socket with statsd server
+exec 3<> /dev/udp/${STATSD}/${PORT}
+
+# Send data
+echo "$1" >&3
+
+# Close UDP socket
+exec 3<&-
+exec 3>&-