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Old 08-09-2006
To resolve the problem of Posix and non Posix output format from df command, You can try something like this :
Code:
AVAILABLE_SPACE=$(df -k /opt | tail -1 | awk '{ print (NF == 6 ? $4 : $3) }'

Jean-Pierre.
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Old 08-10-2006
Could this be a locale problem on that machine where the installation is failing? Becuase, I have installed this package several times on several versions of Solaris and I have not come across this problem. Any ideas?
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