On 2/5/07, Tony Heal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Specifically I want to get the total, used and available space similar to what the bash df command does.
I don't believe that bash has a df command, but there's a standard Unix utility called df instead. There's no need to invoke bash in order to run the df command (though if you did invoke it through bash, it wouldn't make a noticeable difference in runtime). In order to access the system's filesystem information, the Unix utility df is a set-id program (one with special privileges). That means that a Perl program that could access that information directly would also have to be privileged, and thus written with extreme care. So, it's safer and easier all around to simply run the df program. Will that work for you? Hope this helps! --Tom Phoenix Stonehenge Perl Training -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
