On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:55:33 +0000 Paul Stear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri 30 January 2004 18:51, Andrej Kacian wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:27:51 +0100
> >
> > Norbert Kamenicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Paul Stear wrote:
> > > > I can get the disc size so all I need is to calculate the used size and
> > > > then subtract.
> > > > Or is there an easier way?
> <snip>
> > Paul, you need the "df" utility.
>
> Thanks to all who replied, I just need to right justify the figures in the
> output of the script????
What do you mean by that?
If you need to get a particular figure from the output, you can use awk, f.e.:
FREE=`df | grep /home$ | awk '{print $4}'`
to get amount of available space in bytes (4th column of output) for partition
mounted on/home.
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