Using Pipes (Con’t)
But you must count each line on the screen:
ted% ps -ax
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
0 ? D 2:16 swapper
1 ? IW 0:00 /sbin/init -
2 ? D 0:12 pagedaemon
55 ? IW 2:59 portmap
60 ? IW 0:00 ypbind
62 ? IW 0:00 keyserv
73 ? S 1:57 (biod)
74 ? S 1:57 (biod)
75 ? S 1:57 (biod)
76 ? S 1:56 (biod)
87 ? IW 0:03 syslogd
95 ? IW 0:00 rpc.statd
97 ? IW 0:00 rpc.lockd
101 ? IW 11:01 automount
104 ? S 0:41 screenblank
109 ? S 20:21 update
112 ? IW 0:03 cron