On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Craig White wrote:

> am starting. I want it to put
> directory_size = cut -f1 $wdirect/users-homes/$i
> and then
> if $size_plateau > $directory_size then 'mail' an alert
>
> This obviously is a pseudo code. My problem is that the 'cut' command
> seems to want to operate on the entire file and not a line by line.

Use grep before the cut to just get the line you want.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/

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