instead of checking for 'if use="99%"' why not check
for 'if use >="99%"' or 'if use >="some threshold value"'? 

On 14 Jan 2003, lito lampitoc wrote:

> I wrote a very simple bash script to check the capacity of my swap space
> for I have a problem of swap space getting full, the script will delete
> it's content when it reached 99%, my problem is sometimes it can't
> detect 99% because of time interval in cron, I don't want to execute the
> script every second because i think it will burden my processor, what do
> you think is the possible solution. Here is my simple script:
> 
> #!/usr/local/bin/bash
> 
> use=`/usr/bin/df -h|grep swap|awk -F" " '{print $5}'`
> if use="0%";
>  then
>    cat /dev/null 2>&1;
>  elif use = "99%";
>  then
>    /usr/bin/rm /tmp/* > /dev/null 2>&1;
> fi
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 

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