ps -ef | grep oracle...

[Carlo Henrico_1]

Is there any way of adding some kind of counter to know how many of these entries there would be?

ps -ef | grep oracle

returns 80 - 150 of these each time and a bit of a schlep to count them...

[Andreas Voss · Accepted solution]

Hi,

use the wc command:

ps -ef | grep oracle | wc -l

This will count the lines.

Regards

[federico_3]

Try :

ps -ef | grep oracle | wc -l

or:
ps -ef| grep oracle | awk 'END {print NR}'

These will count the lines.

federico

[Fedon Kadifeli]

It is better to use:

ps -fu oracle | ...

[Daniel Correa]

Hi,

You can also do;

ps -ef | grep -c oracle

[Alan Riggs]

yeah Daniel!!!

Glad to see someone else actually remembers the -c flag to grep.

BTW, if the actual count is important please make sure to correct for the report of the grep statement itself.

ps -ef | grep oracle| grep -vc grep

[Jim Welch]

Just wondering what exactly you wanted to count...'ps -ef | grep oracle' would catch a lot of things...user name, process name, /.../oracle/... in the path to a file being executed, or even in a parmeter passed to a command...but then maybe that's what you intended.