Thread: Shell one-liner challenge
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j.s is offline j.s
2010-08-21 , 18:07
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#15
Originally Posted by timoph View Post
I'll start with something rather simple to get this going.

Code:
echo `head -2 < /proc/meminfo | awk '{print $2}' | sort -n` | awk '{printf("You have $1 kb of $2 kb free memory")}'
The above can be simplified even more by omitting the "<" after the "head -2", omitting the " | sort -n", and swapping $1 and $2.

(Of course, the $n must be replaced with %i, and listed after the output string, as mentioned by fnordianslip above.)
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Last edited by j.s; 2010-08-21 at 18:23. Reason: corrected typographic error (> to <)
 

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