oneliner bash question

[gabriel]

On April 19, 2004 10:20 am, Jing Su wrote:
> >   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)}'

thanks! it worked.

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