awk command and grep command

[zhqiang]

when I used the command of '> vmstat -P'
I got the result of '

> vmstat -P

Total Physical Memory = 4096.00 M
= 524288 pages

Physical Memory Clusters:

start_pfn end_pfn type size_pages / size_bytes
0 885 pal 885 / 6.91M
885 524279 os 523394 / 4089.02M
524279 524288 pal 9 / 72.00k

Physical Memory Use:

start_pfn end_pfn type size_pages / size_bytes
885 1033 scavenge 148 / 1.16M
1033 2191 text 1158 / 9.05M
2191 2452 data 261 / 2.04M
2452 2933 bss 481 / 3.76M
2933 3224 kdebug 291 / 2.27M
3224 3231 cfgmgmt 7 / 56.00k
3231 3233 locks 2 / 16.00k
3233 3249 pmap 16 / 128.00k
3249 4001 unixtable 752 / 5.88M
4001 4049 logs 48 / 384.00k
4049 16216 vmtables 12167 / 95.05M
16216 524279 managed 508063 / 3969.24M
============================
Total Physical Memory Use: 523394 / 4089.02M

Managed Pages Break Down:

free pages = 167589
active pages = 151813
inactive pages = 18504
wired pages = 57504
ubc pages = 112801
==================
Total = 508211

WIRED Pages Break Down:

vm wired pages = 11887
ubc wired pages = 0
meta data pages = 5210
malloc pages = 25153
contig pages = 3738
user ptepages = 10697
kernel ptepages = 453
free ptepages = 9
==================
Total = 57147
'
but,How can i get the number of '4096.00'?

[Venkatesh BL]

The following seem to work for me now:
# vmstat -P |grep "Total Physical Memory" |head -1|awk '{print $5}'

Not sure if it will work for all cases.

[zhqiang]

I want to get the result of '524288 '，but the command of
" vmstat -P |grep "=" |head -2|awk '{print $2}' " returns the result of
"
Physical
524288 "
"Physical" is not what i want,what is wrong?

[Dennis Handly]

>Venkatesh: vmstat -P |grep "Total Physical Memory" |head -1|awk '{print $5}'

You could eliminate the grep and head:
vmstat -P | awk '/Total Physical Memory/ {print $5; exit}'

[Venkatesh BL]

> vmstat -P |grep "=" |head -2|awk '{print $2}

You got different result because, you typed a different grep pattern!

Moreover, you could use the command provided by Dennis now.

[zhqiang]

I see , I can use the command of "vmstat -P |grep "=" |awk 'NR==2 {print $2} " to get the result in the second line.
Thanks.