Shell Tricks #3 – Disk Usage Alarm


This is a one-liner to “alarm” if the disk usage of a filesystem has exceeded a certain threshold. I put the directory to monitor as “~” (home) and the threshold as 40%.

test `df -h ~ | grep -o '[0-9]*%' | grep -o '[0-9]*'` -ge 40 && echo high

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