mylogin: lsload -I tmp2 HOST_NAME status tmp2 blrlc264 ok 3e+04 blrlc260 ok 4e+05 blrlc256 ok 4e+05 #### use List::Util qw/max/; my $cmd = `lsload -I tmp2`; my @arr = split("\n", $cmd ); shift @arr; my @size; foreach (@arr) { my @row = split(" ", $_); push @size, $row[-1]; } my $maxsize = max @size ;