[ILUG] ugly df

[Josh Glover]

On 11/11/06, Paul Reilly <paulr at maths.tcd.ie> wrote:

> Anyone know a simple way to make df display it's output nicely?

Sure. This fact that I call df twice is slightly garbage, but it gets
the job done and I cannot think of another way to not sort the first
line, short of using a tmp file.

: jmglov at laurana; df -h | head -1; df -h | sed -e 1d | sort
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3             123M  116M  6.6M  95% /
/dev/hda5             1.9G  710M  1.1G  39% /tmp
/dev/hda6             9.4G  5.1G  4.3G  54% /usr
/dev/hda7             484M  219M  266M  46% /var
/dev/hda8              16G   14G  2.2G  87% /home
none                  252M     0  252M   0% /dev/shm
udev                  252M  600K  252M   1% /dev

> I suppose you could do this by recompiling, or wrapping 'df' in some
> script to format it nicely. But there must be a better way.

Wrapping df in a script, or better yet piping its output to another
program or programs is The Unix Way. Kitchen-sink options-having
programs like GNU ls(1) are not The Unix Way. :)

-Josh