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Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 20:14:18 -0500
Subject: Re: how do I see the current number of PTYs in use ?
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Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>,
	Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>, Paul Halliday <dp@penix.org>,
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On Friday, March 1, 2002, at 05:49 , Dan Nelson wrote:

> In the last episode (Mar 02), Daniel O'Connor said:
>> On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 21:19, Danny Braniss wrote:
>>> fstat | awk '{print $8}' | egrep 'tty[pqrsPQRS]' | sort -u | wc -l
>>>
>>> is IMHO correct, ;-)
>>
>> Ach, of course :)
>> I hope the original poster is satisfied 8-)
>
> Easier might be "pstat -t | grep 'tty[pqrsPQRS]' | wc -l"

pstat -t | grep -ic 'tty[pqrs]'

saves a fork. Since we're being silly.


Joe


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