Shell Programming and Scripting

Thanks for the quick help everyone. I am trying each of these. Let me get back to you guys on my choice. Really appreciate your help from bottom of my heart...

Don,
Your observation is fantastic. You are right, my files are actually having K, M, G and T no B is included. To avoid confusion I put B for K alone.

Actually, if you look at the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th lines in your sample input:

Code:

NAME1      93MB        93KB   
NAME2      25G        62K     
NAME3      14G        873M

you'll see that you use both MB and M (not just M) and KB and K (not just KB) but all of the code samples you have been supplied allow any of your multipliers to be specified with or without a trailing B. As long as we have a good sample of the input and desired output, you can write code that adjusts to what it finds.

Right.. That's awesome. I saw this : thats so cool..

Code:

m["K"] = m["KB"] = 1024 	m["M"] = m["MB"] = 1024 ** 2 	m["G"] = m["GB"] = 1024 ** 3 	m["T"] = m["TB"] = 1024 ** 4

If these are sizes from the output of df? If so, you might be better to grab the percentage when running that command rather than trying to work it out later.

Can you trace back where the data comes from?


Kind regards,
Robin