Bash - Get available size / free space

The Bash function below will return the number of kilobytes of free space of the provided path.

function GET_FREE_SPACE_KB()
{
  local LOCATION=$1
  local FREE_SPACE_MB=$(df -k --output=avail ${LOCATION} | tail -1 )
  echo ${FREE_SPACE_MB}
}

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