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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to alias this awk? Post 302966213 by Scrutinizer on Tuesday 9th of February 2016 02:07:27 PM
Old 02-09-2016
Try using a function instead of an alias, which allows you to use parameters:

Code:
x() {
  df -k "$1" | awk 'NR==1 {CNV=1024*1024;GBYTES="GBytes";FMT="%-35s %-10s %-10s %-10s %10s %-s\n"; printf FMT, $1, GBYTES, $3, $4, $5, $6; next} {printf FMT,$1,$2/CNV,$3/CNV,$4/CNV,$5,$6}'
}

Code:
x /tmp

--
It also allows you to make it more readable:
Code:
x() {
  df -k "$1" | 
  awk '
    NR==1 {
      CNV=1024*1024
      FMT="%-35s %-10s %-10s %-10s %10s %-s\n"
      printf FMT, $1, "GBYTES", $3, $4, $5, $6
      next
    }
    {
      printf FMT,$1,$2/CNV,$3/CNV,$4/CNV,$5,$6
    }
  '
}

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 02-09-2016 at 03:14 PM..
 

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