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Old 04-30-2008
Code:
du -kx / | awk -F/ 'NF==2'

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Old 04-30-2008
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Originally Posted by shamrock
Code:
du -kx / | awk -F/ 'NF==2'

wow - this works very nicely! I would have never thought of counting the fields. Thanks so much for your help! Smilie
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