Hi,
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Robert Schiele wrote:
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 10:13:09PM +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Pascal Bleser wrote:
Just for the record:
awk '/^MemTotal:/{print $2}' /proc/meminfo
Topped:
(read a b c; echo $b ) </proc/meminfo
Why doing a fork? You could do it without a fork as well:
$ read a b c </proc/meminfo; echo $b
Right. Topped.
But there is a big problem with that solution anyway: It assumes that MemTotal
is the first line in /proc/meminfo. If one decides to reorder this table in
the kernel or add some headline all your scripts using this solution will
break.
Surely. It was just a sports exercise.
If I would need it, I would do
grep ^MemTotal /proc/meminfo | (read a b c; echo $b )
and here bash needs the "(...)" to force the subprocess forking at the
right point...
By this long long traded experience of necessity, I did not see your
solution.
BTW: Christoph just told me that he is really upset about the
ignorance of all the readers here. He had done all his best to cat a
good MemTotal value from a real system, but noone did realize it...
Cheers -e
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