on a tangent; you don't need [e]grep:

/usr/bin/vmstat 1 1 | awk '/[0-9]/ {print $15}'

-david

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i wrote a very simple one using vmstat to check the idle percentage
>
> /usr/bin/vmstat 1 1 | egrep '[0-9]' |awk '{print $15}'
>   

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