Re: Get the available space in a partition using as input a directory?

You missed this bit from the OP:

This would have to work on Linux, Mac and Windows (my emphasis)

Neither stat nor statvfs work on Windows.

Here's a kludge to get the available space on your current Windows drive:

my $free = ( split ' ', qx{ dir|find "bytes free" } )[2];
$free =~ s/\D//g;
[download]

But that is Perl 5. I don't know if Perl 4 even provides a way to make a system call to Windows...

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Re^2: Get the available space in a partition using as input a directory? by choroba (Cardinal) on Jul 12, 2013 at 19:16 UTC
bytes free Aren't MS Windows localized, i.e. this would work only for English users? لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply]
Re^3: Get the available space in a partition using as input a directory? by Not_a_Number (Prior) on Jul 12, 2013 at 19:38 UTC
Yup, you're right. Here's an updated kludge: `my $free = ( split "\n", qx{ dir } )[-1]; $free = ( split ' ', $free )[2]; $free =~ s/\D//g; print $free;` [download] Works for at least French and English...	[reply] [d/l]