I am trying to create a script to display just one of the numbers from the free command. In my case, the number I want is on the 2nd line of the free -g output and at character slot 43. The original output of free -g is:
total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 3 0 2 0 0 2 Swap: 3 0 3
So far I have gotten the 2nd line to display with:
free -g | sed -n 2p Mem: 3 0 2 0 0 2
I need just the 43rd character of that line or the 4th column? I have looked into printf and cut but get a grody syntax error.
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Answer
If a line contains Mem:
print from this line column 4:
free -g | awk '/Mem:/ {print $4}'
Output:
2