oneliner bash question

[Jing Su]

>   ssh $host "du -sh "$path/$file | awk '{print $1}'"
>
> but the problem is that tihs prints out "12M\n" and i'd like to remove the
> "\n".  i tried this:

The "print" command in AWK is giving you the newline. try replacing the
awk command with:

awk '{printf("%s", $1)}'


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