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Old 07-15-2008
Annihilannic Annihilannic is offline Forum Advisor  
  
 

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Does the mail command work on its own outside the script?

You could include the date command at the beginning and end of the script, or else use time scriptname to run it.

Incidentally, no need for awk and grep, this will do:

Code:
fs=$(df | awk '/testfs/ { print $7}')