vnstat: how do the –begin and –end options work?

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vnstat: how do the –begin and –end options work?

I have a metered internet connection that resets on the 17th of each month.

I’m using vnstat to monitor my bandwith. I just installed it from the repo. I’d like it to show me how much I have used from the 17th on but I can’t get it to work.

This is what I’m doing:

vnstat -b 2024-04-17 -e today

or

vnstat -b 2024-04-17 -e 2024-04-22

but the output is identical to vnstat without options.

I’m just a simple user, not a super user. Thank you for your time.

Asked By: Maryness

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Answer 1

Simply add the list type you want before the begin and end dates (the command you typed omitted the --days)

vnstat --days -b 2024-04-01 -e 2024-04-02

 enp4s0  /  daily

          day        rx      |     tx      |    total    |   avg. rate
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
     04/01/2024     3.08 GiB |    1.18 GiB |    4.26 GiB |  423.14 kbit/s
     04/02/2024    10.26 MiB |    6.83 MiB |   17.09 MiB |    1.66 kbit/s
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
      sum of 2      3.09 GiB |    1.19 GiB |    4.27 GiB |

Answered By: Organic Marble