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From: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>
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Subject: Using global environment variables inside a subshell
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Hi everyone,

I've fudged together a quick disk space monitor that I will run from
cron. Running the script works fine from the command line, but when I
run it from cron, the environment variable is empty.

Can someone point out the err of my ways?:

#!/bin/sh

/bin/df | \
/usr/bin/awk '{if($5 ~ "%" && $6 !~ "proc") {used=$5} else {used=""}; \
sub(/%/, "", used); \
if(used > 95) print $6 " is at " used"% on "ENVIRON["HOSTNAME"]"!"}' | \
mail -s "Disk usage action required" email@addr.com

Cheers!

Steve