To findout the highest bps usage in iostat output.

[rveri]

Hi All,

How to findout the highest bps usage from iostat output:

For example: for disk c56t6d1 the bps is highest here (738): How to find it out through a script:
The command used is :
# iostat 5 5 > iostat.output

c56t12d6 37 4.6 1.0
c56t1d2 0 0.0 1.0
c56t1d4 0 0.0 1.0
c56t1d6 0 0.0 1.0
c56t1d7 0 0.0 1.0
c56t2d3 0 0.0 1.0
c56t2d5 0 0.0 1.0
c56t2d6 0 0.0 1.0
c56t3d0 0 0.0 1.0
c56t3d2 0 0.0 1.0
c56t3d3 0 0.0 1.0
c56t3d6 0 0.0 1.0
c56t4d0 0 0.0 1.0
c56t4d4 3 0.3 1.0
c56t4d5 0 0.0 1.0
c56t4d6 0 0.0 1.0
c56t5d2 0 0.0 1.0
c56t5d3 0 0.0 1.0
c56t6d1 738 26.4 1.0
c56t6d2 0 0.0 1.0
c56t6d6 0 0.0 1.0
c56t8d7 21 2.6 1.0
c56t9d1 0 0.0 1.0
c56t9d4 0 0.0 1.0
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Thanks,

[Ivan Krastev]

Just sort it:

cat iostat.output | awk '{print $2}' | sort | tail -1


regards,
ivan