Hi,

I'm working a script to give system information. And i'd like to do the following

I want to be able to print values into rows and columns, for example

have

F1=1
F2=6
F3=2
F4=3
F5=4

df -lh | awk '{print $'$F1', $'$F2', $'$F3', $'$F4', $'$F5'}' \
|while read FIRST SECOND THIRD FOURTH FIFTH
do
echo "Filesystem = ${FIRST}"
echo "Mountpoint = $(SECOND}"
echo "Capacity = ${THIRD}"
echo "Used = ${FOURTH}"
echo "Available = ${FIFTH}"
done


problem is this prints the data as follows

Filesystem = /dev/sda1
Mountpoint = /home
Capacity = 25G
Used = 1G
Avail = 24G

now if there are lots of file sytems then the output looks a bit shoddy.... what do i need to do to print the data like so:

Filesystem Mountpoint Capacity Used Avail
/dev/sda1 / 25G 1G 24G



Thanks

How about putting it all on the same line???

echo "Mountpoint = $(SECOND)\t$(THIRD)\t$(FOURTH)\t$(FIFTH)"

The '\t's are tabs, if I remember correctly.

you just simply need to arrange your columns's position

aww man!! I feel stupid! rearranging columns in awk was one of the first things i learned on unix!