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diegodias
Asked: 2011-03-16 07:38:53 +0800 CST

Retrieving a specific value from “df -h” using shell

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When I use df -h, I get the following output:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 59G 2.2G 54G 4% /

/dev/sda1 122M 38M 78M 33% /boot

tmpfs 1.1G 0 1.1G 0% /dev/shm

10.10.0.105:/somepath

                   11T  8.4T  2.1T  81% /storage4

10.11.0.101:/somepath

                   15T  8.9T  5.9T  61% /storage1

/dev/mapper/patha 5.0T 255G 4.8T 5% /storage5_vol0

/dev/mapper/pathb 5.0T 195G 4.9T 4% /storage5_vol1

/dev/mapper/pathc 5.0T 608G 4.5T 12% /storage5_vol2

I want to write a script that gets the value of Avail column on a specific storage.

I used to use

df -k /storage_name | tail -1 | awk '{print $3}'

But the FileSystem column can have a value or not .. which would change the variable of my script from $3 to $4.

How can I get the Avail on a single command line even if there are no values on the previous columns?

shell

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Use df's -P option for "portability" or "POSIX" output and change to the 4th field for the available count.

    df -kP /storage_name | tail -1 | awk '{print $4}'

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