Use of Pipes - | (Con’t)

• There are several solutions to this problem:

  • Solution 1
    host% ps -ax > psfile
    
    host% wc -l psfile
    • Note the number of processes
  • Solution 2
    host% ps -ax | wc -l
    
    • Note the number of processes
  • Why is there a difference of one process?

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