Harry Putnam <hgp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Harry Putnam <hgp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> my $line = $_; > > Ooops. my $line should'nt have made it into the final version. Its > useless and does nothing I'm sorry folks... fortunately for me probably no one will try to use the script I posted... but on the off chance they do, I should at least post something that works. Maybe I need some coffee.. #!/usr/bin/perl -w # Keywords: fdiskcnv - designed to convert fdisk -l output to approx. # MB equivalents. Script Runs `fdisk -l' inside perl and converts # the block values to Mbyte values in a second printout. # Apr 29 2003 2 # && $cmd = 'fdisk -l'; open(FDISKL,"$cmd |"); while(<FDISKL>){ print; chomp; if(/^\/dev\//){ $readem = "TRUE"; } if(!/^\/dev\//){ $readem = ''; } if ($readem && /\s+\*\s+/){ ## if we see the asterisk grab field5 ## and get rid of any + signs by making + a split field ($fld0,$fld4) = (split(/\s+|\+/))[0,4]; $var = sprintf "%-12s %s %.2f\n","$fld0 " , "MB" , ($fld4 / 1024); push @MB_ar, "$var"; }elsif($readem && $_ !~ /\*/){ ($fld0, $fld3) = (split(/\s+|\+/))[0,3]; $var = sprintf "%-12s %s %.2f\n","$fld0 ", "MB" , ($fld3 / 1024); push @MB_ar, "$var"; } } close(FDISKL); print "\n== Approximate Mbyte equivalents ====\n\n"; for(@MB_ar){ print; }