Cut question

[Ralph W. Reid]

Mike Keithley staggered into view and mumbled:
>
>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
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>df `pwd` | grep "/" | cut -f4
>
>Now this returns the entire line from df like:
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>/dev/sdb2              8609476   3522184   4999820  42% /
>
>What delimiter in cut do I need to pick off field 4?

Have you considered using `awk' instead?  The following may do what
you want:

df . | tail -1 | awk '{print $4}'

I hope this helps.  Have a _great_ day!

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