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bdf command formatted output in hpux

Learn to get the neat, clean and tabbed output of bdf.  This left aligned and properly formatted bdf output is helpful for easier data processing.

Requirement :

bdf command output normally looks scattered especially when VG names are long. It will be difficult to grep out a proper pattern out of such output. Also, it’s not convenient to share this output over email/document when extra lines break exists.

In such scenarios, we need to have a properly formatted output of bdf. Also sometimes we require output with all its columns left-aligned.

Solution:

To remove line breaks from bdf output and get single row per entry output

See below normal bdf output. Note that the last 2 mount points have two-line entry since the filesystem column has long entry.

# bdf

Filesystem          kbytes    used   avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol3    2097152  737416 1349304   35% /
/dev/vg00/lvol1    1048576  206160  835928   20% /stand
/dev/vg00/lvol8    8388608 5475640 2902568   65% /var
/dev/vg00/lvol7    8388608 4655256 3713000   56% /usr
/dev/vg00/lvol4    2097152 1052368 1036888   50% /tmp
/dev/vg00/lvol6    8388608 6675168 1700112   80% /opt
/dev/vg00/lvol5     524288   49360  471256    9% /home
testserver01:/data
                   50574008 4541896 43463104    9% /data
/dev/vgdata/lvol1
                   918421504 591931608 306084338   66% /datastore

Now with inline awk we format the output to have one entry per row. Check below command output.

# bdf | awk '{if (NF==1) {line=$0;getline;sub(" *"," ");print line$0} else {print}}'

Filesystem          kbytes    used   avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol3    2097152  737408 1349312   35% /
/dev/vg00/lvol1    1048576  206160  835928   20% /stand
/dev/vg00/lvol8    8388608 5475640 2902568   65% /var
/dev/vg00/lvol7    8388608 4655256 3713000   56% /usr
/dev/vg00/lvol4    2097152 1052368 1036880   50% /tmp
/dev/vg00/lvol6    8388608 6675168 1700112   80% /opt
/dev/vg00/lvol5     524288   49360  471256    9% /home
testserver01:/data 50574008 4541896 43463104    9% /data
/dev/vgdata/lvol1 918421504 591931608 306084338   66% /datastore

To get left aligned bdf output

In the above output, columns are not aligned properly. We can even do that with the below argument.

# bdf | awk '///{printf("%-30s%-10s%-10s%-10s%-5s%-10sn",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6)}'

/dev/vg00/lvol3               2097152   737408    1349312   35%  /
/dev/vg00/lvol1               1048576   206160    835928    20%  /stand
/dev/vg00/lvol8               8388608   5472792   2905392   65%  /var
/dev/vg00/lvol7               8388608   4655256   3713000   56%  /usr
/dev/vg00/lvol4               2097152   1052368   1036888   50%  /tmp
/dev/vg00/lvol6               8388608   6675168   1700112   80%  /opt
/dev/vg00/lvol5               524288    49360     471256    9%   /home

Please make a note that this awk won’t remove any line breaks from the output. So one can combine (with pipe |) both awk to get left aligned output with line breaks removed.

Left-aligned output with line breaks removed!

# bdf | awk '{if (NF==1) {line=$0;getline;sub(" *"," ");print line$0} else {print}}' |awk '///{printf("%-30s%-10s%-10s%-10s%-5s%-10sn",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6)}'
/dev/vg00/lvol3               2097152   737408    1349312   35%  /
/dev/vg00/lvol1               1048576   206160    835928    20%  /stand
/dev/vg00/lvol8               8388608   5481008   2897240   65%  /var
/dev/vg00/lvol7               8388608   4655256   3713000   56%  /usr
/dev/vg00/lvol4               2097152   1052368   1036888   50%  /tmp
/dev/vg00/lvol6               8388608   6675168   1700112   80%  /opt
/dev/vg00/lvol5               524288    49360     471256    9%   /home
testserver01:/data            50574008  4541896   43463104  9%   /data
/dev/vgdata/lvol1             918421504 591931608 306084338 66%  /datastore