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

[Not_a_Number]

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;

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

[choroba]

bytes free

Aren't MS Windows localized, i.e. this would work only for English users?

[Not_a_Number]

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;

Works for at least French and English...