11.9. Number of Processes
ps ax | wc -l | tr -d " "
OR
ps ax | wc -l | awk '{print $1}'
OR
ps ax | wc -l | sed -e "s: ::g"
. In
each case,
tr
or
awk
or
sed
is used to remove the undesirable whitespace.
Relative speed: any one of these variants takes about 0.9 seconds on an
unloaded 486SX25.