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Old 10-03-2012
Move files to another folder base on DU

Hi,

I want to move files like *.txt to another filesystem on the same server only when the disk usage reaches 80% or more. But need to keep the latest 5 files. After that delete from the original. How to proceed?



Please help



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Last edited by Gavisht; 10-03-2012 at 02:11 AM.. Reason: Add some content
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Old 10-03-2012
write a script that does this for you...
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Old 10-03-2012
Just want to know how to proceed.. what's the best way to get only the percentage value
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Old 10-03-2012
try using df -h for getting memory percentage..
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Old 10-03-2012
df-h i know.. you will get a full line e.g

> df -h <pathname>
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d99 68G 2.9G 64G 5% <pathname>

instead of the above output, I wish to get only the capacity, that is, 5% as output
# 6  
Old 10-03-2012
something like df -h | awk '{print $5}' should work...
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