getting iostat -x %b with php
| From: | Iv Ray | Date: | Tue, 06 May 2008 09:42:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | getting iostat -x %b with php | ||
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What is the best way to extract just the drive load information (%b column) from "iostat -x" (on FreeBSD)?
I imagine to exec() the "iostat -x" and then process the result with regex, but I am not sure if this is the best way - for instance, is %b is aways the Nth column in the returned value?
Iv