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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting redirect frintf to a variable Post 302559635 by robo on Tuesday 27th of September 2011 06:18:07 PM
Old 09-27-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by jlliagre
Code:
$ a=$(printf "%08x" 22)
$ echo $a
00000016

this is not working Smilie

here is my code for

Code:
#!/bin/bash
FREE=`free -m | awk '/^Mem:/	{ printf( "%s\n", $4 ); }'`
USED=`free -m | awk '/^Mem:/	{ printf( "%s\n", $3 ); }'`
TOTAL=`expr $FREE + $USED`
awk -v TOTAL=$TOTAL -v FREE=$FREE -v USED=$USED '
BEGIN {
 printf "FREEPER: %3.2f%%\n", FREE / TOTAL * 100
 printf "USEDPER: %3.2f%%\n", USED / TOTAL * 100
 exit
}'

i would like to pass each printf output to a variable
 

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