How to get free space?

[TonyGroves]

Does anybody of a Perl function that returns the amount of free space on a filesystem?

I know I could use a system command like "df" and parse the output, but that's awkward, OS-dependent, and possibly version-dependent.

 

[MikeLacey]

In the past I've had to write a module that looks at what OS it's running on, looks at what version it's on - and then interprets the output of some command or other. Not pretty in the module but at least in your script you can say something like $space_avail = freespace($fs)

Mike

I am not inscrutable.

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[TrojanWarBlade]

Have you checked CPAN for modules that will offer this facility and abstraction for portability?


Trojan.

 

[TonyGroves]

MikeLacey:
Thanks, I suspected I would have to write my own function.

TrojanWarBlade:
There is Filesys:iskFree, but apparently it's for Unixish systems only.