I have a one liner command I am using in OS X to grab the volume name, but if the user sets spaces in their names it doesn't quite work.
I would like awk to print everything after value $3 in my script, in case they have spaces and multiple names of their boot volume. Can I wild card it, so that awk will print every value after $3?
`bless --getboot` just gets the device it is booting from, so the output would be /dev/disk0s2 on almost all default machines, but in some cases that may not be the case if the desktop has multiple drives and someone imaged the wrong one by accident.
I want to enforce a standard volume name for the boot volume, so that the boot volume is always named Macintosh HD, no matter what. Users are renaming it, and well it breaks a few things myself and others do when they rename it. Some Windows apps we run in cross over API don't like /dev/disk entries they want volume names, so I gotta make sure the boot volume is always named something standard.
Here is the output of the command like you requested:
This is my work desktop, which is not managed because I don't need to run any of the apps my users do. However, some users may have changed the boot volume name to like "BLING-BLING," or "MAC DADDY," and that is not a joke. I need to be able to script it to always detect the volume name and rename if possible. So my desired output would be to grab the whole volume name, regardless of how many words, or spaces it has. I was hoping to wild card the print $3 option to grab everything after that in my awk command.
Now that I think about it, I guess I could just always force a volume name change, but at this point in time I was looking to expand my awk skills, heh.
My boot volume is named OSX HD, so it is two words with a space in the middle. It could be different on every machine as the end user is able to rename it whatever they want. So, I need to some how wild card awk so it prints the whole volume name.
Sorry if I wasn't clear before, but does that make sense? So my desired output would be OSX HD on the info given, but if a user names their hard drive say Mac hard drive, that would be three words, with two spaces, so I need to capture the whole value(s) after /Volume Name:/.
Good evening, Im newbie at unix specially with awk
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I am adding a column of numbers with awk , however not getting correct output:
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2.15291e+06
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