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From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
To: Paul Halliday <dp@penix.org>
Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>,
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Subject: Re: how do I see the current number of PTYs in use ?
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On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 09:51:22PM -0600, Paul Halliday wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Joe Abley wrote:
> 
> >
> > 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.
> 
> err.. we are not being silly..

Oh yes we are.

> not accurate (read last post)
> your modification still produces erroneous results.

My modification saves a fork from your modification, as specified.
If there is a god, this thread will now die.


Joe

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