On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Ensel Sharon wrote: > > and I know how to use awk to strip away the leading "md" from each piece > > of the output ... but I do not know how to take output like: > > > > 8 9 11 14 > > > > and decide that the lowest available number is "0". How can I do this ? > > % echo '9 8 11 14' | sort -nt ' ' | head -1 > 8 Yeah, but I am looking for "0" ... 8,9,11,14 are all in use ... but 0-7 are not. I want to: "starting with zero, find the lowest number that is NOT in this list" (where "this list" is the output of mdconfig -l, which shows which md devices are currently in use) Thanks. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"