I've had problems with this in the past, and it's causing problems
again. Sigh. df on Linux simply insists on wrapping text, and this
breaks things.
For example, take a look at this:
$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
8030648 4390580 3225556 58% /
/dev/hda1 101086 10839 85028 12% /boot
tmpfs 1037880 0 1037880 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02
141282016 64718168 69271332 49% /scratch
/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-BackupPC
196013428 142346300 43710164 77% /home/backuppc/data
This breaks a million scripts out there.
Yes, we can use -P to fix this, but how many scripts are out there that
assume that.. oh, call me crazy.. that just a simple 'df' prints out
output that can be properly awked?
Anyone been bitten by this?
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