Re: [Sheflug] Using awk

["Imran Javeed" <i.javeed [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks jonathan

I did look on the man page but must have missed it somewhere..


Imran
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan <jonathan [at] sirtis.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:06:45 
To:shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Using awk

Imran Javeed wrote:
> On Thursday 27 January 2005 16:41, Jonathan wrote:
> 
>>Jonathan wrote:
>>root [at] server# df | awk /%/ | sort +5
>>/dev/ar0s1a   1012974    53260   878678     6%    /
>>devfs               1        1        0   100%    /dev
>>/dev/ar0s1d   1012974     9490   922448     1%    /tmp
>>/dev/ar0s1f  65327520 15440068 44661252    26%    /usr
>>/dev/ar0s1e   8122126    62762  7409594     1%    /var
>>
>>- J
> 
> In the above line 
> 
> root [at] server# df | awk /%/ | sort +5
> 
> what is the awk /%/ actually doing, what difference is it from
> 
> df | sort +5
> 
> could someone please explain?

Imran, have you tried looking at the man page for awk? There's a lot of 
information on awk available on google as well.

The awk line in question outputs those lines containing %.

If you run "df" followed by "df | awk /%/" you can compare the outputs.

Regards,

Jonathan


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