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Old 04-05-2009
help with bourne script

Hey guys not sure why but when i execute the script i get the correct result but then it says command not found not sure why can anyone see anything wrong with my code below?

I just want to print how much quota i have used in my home directory
Code:
#!bin/sh


`quota -v | grep ^/home | awk '{print int($2/$3*100)}'`

echo "your quota is being used"

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Old 04-05-2009
Code:
#!bin/sh


q=`quota -v | grep ^/home | awk '{print int($2/$3*100)}'`

echo "your quota is being used = $q "

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Old 04-05-2009
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Code:
echo "your quota is being used = `quota -v|awk '/^\/home/{print int($2/$3*100)}'`"

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