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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Help w/Disk usage utility
Message-ID: <1991Mar03.193008.18110@jpradley.jpr.com>
Date: 3 Mar 91 19:30:08 GMT
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In article <44966@ut-emx.uucp> arthur@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Arthur Nghiem) writes:
>	I want to write a script that will check the disk usage of a group
>of users periodically.

It exists. It's called /usr/bin/quot.

>                       I want to be able to warn them when they first exceed
>a limit, wait a few days and then automatically compress their files or
>remove the newest files that put them over the limit.

Try piping the ouput of quot into awk to pick out the violators.

 Jean-Pierre Radley   NYC Public Unix   jpr@jpradley.jpr.com   CIS: 72160,1341