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Re: Wishlist: --no-header option for df


From: James Youngman
Subject: Re: Wishlist: --no-header option for df
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:18:46 +0100

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Christian Hudon <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a small feature request. It'd be nice to have a --no-header option to
> df that skips printing the header line.

The feature is already implemented in sed:-

$ df -P | sed -e 1d|head -3
/dev/mapper/mirror_a-root_fs   5160576   1045448   3852984      22% /
tmpfs                  1989896         0   1989896       0% /lib/init/rw
udev                     10240       280      9960       3% /dev


>
> The use case for this would be when doing stuff like (in a shell), to check
> the disk space on a particular partition on a long list of machines:
>
> for machine in `long list of machines`
>  df --no-header /usr
>
> The output would be much easier to read without the all the interleaved
> header lines.
>
> Thanks for listening,
>
>  Christian
>
>
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