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Date:      Tue, 13 May 2008 12:47:22 -0700
From:      Johan  Dowdy <jdowdy@ncircle.com>
To:        Iv Ray <pobox@verysmall.org>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: accessing iostat -x %b with a scripting language
Message-ID:  <C44F3E5A.99770%jdowdy@ncircle.com>
In-Reply-To: <4829EA76.7020806@verysmall.org>

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What do you mean by "access"?

A simple way to get the output would be(presuming the 8th column has the
data you want):
iostat -x | awk '{ print $8 }'
This could be redirected to a file or processed ins a shell script etc.

What is it that you want to "do' with the output?

-J



On 5/13/08 12:22 PM, "Iv Ray" <pobox@verysmall.org> wrote:

> Is there a standard way to access, with a scripting language (php, perl,
> etc.) the output of -
> 
> iostat -x
> 
> I am particularly interested in the %b column (HDD utilization).
> 
> I am not sure if reading the output and regex-ing the Nth column is the
> right approach, or there is a more intelligent one.
> 
> Iv
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