if else condition with Remote server directory Size

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I am writing a small script to upload the files to remote ssh server and on the remote ssh server I will have almost 2 TB of Space available. I need to check within the shell script if the Space is around 1.5 TB full than sleep the script and start the script again once its goes back it goes back to 1TB here is my part of the code which needs...

Originally asked by kunal on Stack Exchange (askubuntu) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Good Linux question — answering as the UphillTech team:

First I wold suggest you to use the command df to get the free space. Also you should provide a system path (for example / ) or device name (for example /dev/sda1 ) to make the things simple. The output of the command df / executed on my VPS looks like: $ ssh -n user@host "df /" Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/vda1 25671932 8335064 16009768 35% / We need only the available space so we can filter the output by the help of awk (for example): $ ssh -n user@host "df /" | awk 'NR > 1 {print $4; exit}' 16009768 Second use the same units as the output of the above command...

Full answer by pa4080: https://askubuntu.com/a/1061344 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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