On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 02:09:42PM -0500, Bryan White wrote:
> I use:
> ps ax | grep postgres | wc -l
> Note the value is often one to high because is picks up the grep process.
Why not just remove 'grep' - i.e
ps ax | grep postgres | grep -v grep | wc -l
HTH,
Neil
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