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Matthew Thorley
My friend sent me an email asking this:
I wasn't able to give him an afirmative answer because I've never used
python for things like this. I just spent the last while looking on
google and haven't found an answer yet. I was hoping some one out there
might have some thoughts ?
thanks much
-matthew
> I'm attemtping to decide which scripting language I should master and
> was wondering if it's possible to do
> these unixy awkish commands in python:
>
> How to find the amount of disk space a user is taking up:
>
> find / -user rprice -fstype nfs ! -name /dev/\* -ls | awk '{sum+=$7};\
> {print "User rprice total disk use = " sum}'
>
> How to find the average size of a file for a user:
>
> find / -user rprice -fstype nfs ! -name /dev/\* -ls | awk '{sum+=$7};\
> {print "The ave size of file for rprice is = " sum/NR}'
I wasn't able to give him an afirmative answer because I've never used
python for things like this. I just spent the last while looking on
google and haven't found an answer yet. I was hoping some one out there
might have some thoughts ?
thanks much
-matthew