Cut question

[Luke Davis]

A space, I suppose.

I only know how to do this with awk, which is something you might
consider.


On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Mike Keithley wrote:

> Hi list
>
> I am trying to write a command to return free disk space so I can use it
> in a script.  My most recent attempt is
>
> df `pwd` | grep "/" | cut -f4
>
> Now this returns the entire line from df like:
>
> /dev/sdb2              8609476   3522184   4999820  42% /
>
> What delimiter in cut do I need to pick off field 4?
>
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