On 12/21/2010 01:39 PM, jamesaharrisonuk@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > The kernel reports the amount of memory in /proc/meninfo . It shows the memory information in kilobytes. > James > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Thank you for your suggestion James. I tried it out and /proc/meminfo seems to give the same amount of memory as free: $ grep "MemTotal" /proc/meminfo | awk '{ print $2 }' 6123716 Fortunately I did find some awk voodoo that works. For the archives here it is. Mind the line breaks. Line 2,3,4 should be all one line. mem=$(free|grep Mem|awk '{print$2}') echo "$mem" | awk '{ n = $0; sub(/[0-9]+(.[0-9]+)?/, ""); split(n, a, $0); n=a[1]; if ($0 == "G" || $0 == "") { n *= 1024 }; if (/^kB?/) { n /= 1024 }; printf "%d\n", n }' # Intentionaly round to an integer This line gives 6144 on a box with 6GB mem. Regards, Patrick [snip] _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list