by Andy Burge » Fri, 08 Apr 1994 07:46:59
you could:Quote:> What I am asking is, how can I find out how much room is left on the disk
>partition I used as my 'tar' archive?
tar -cf - /usr | dd > /dev/sdc2
and dd will print to stderr how much it transfered.
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Andrew A. Burgess SLIP internet connections
Santa Cruz CA and vicinity
1. Why doesn't echo "text" 'command' "more text" work?
^ ^
Wrong quotes, should be -
echo "You have" `grep Subject: /usr/spool/mail/me | wc -l` "messages."
or -
echo "You have `grep Subject: /usr/spool/mail/me | wc -l` messages."
But, another problem is, if you've no mail, /usr/spool/mail/me does not
exist, leading grep to say:
grep: can't open /usr/spool/mail/me
Wc will still report 0.
You might try -
sh -c 'echo "You have `grep 2>/dev/null Subject: /usr/spool/mail/me | wc -l` messages."'
Hope this helps.
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