Shell Programming and Scripting

Sorry Guys It was my silly mistake that caused the error.

Zaxxon,

Putting set -x helped to troubleshoot the problem that it was not able to open "LCL_CLN_FILE " as I did not use

Code:

$LCL_CLN_FILE

Code:

 
remaining=$(symclone -sid $LCL_SID -f $ETC/LCL_CLN_FILE query | grep MB | awk '{print $2}' | sed 's/[.].*//')

Methyl,

I get the MB's value as floating number sometimes so I am using the sed part to remove the decimal part

I am new to scripting and trying to learn it so apologize for not being clear with my questions.

But it's still $1 not $2 ??

Methyl,

The first field is MB's itself.

Code:

 
symclone -sid XXX -f YYY query | grep MB
  MB(s)              9999.0      0.0                     0.0

the output of the command after grep, awk '{print $1}' gives MB, while $2 gives 9999.0

Ah, the example in Post #8 is quite different.