What's the purpose of the "grep -v grep" ?
Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil Conway" <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org>
To: "pgsql-general" <pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Number of Connections
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 02:09:42PM -0500, Bryan White wrote:
> > I use:
> > ps ax | grep postgres | wc -l
> > Note the value is often one to high because is picks up the grep
process.
>
> Why not just remove 'grep' - i.e
>
> ps ax | grep postgres | grep -v grep | wc -l
>
> HTH,
>
> Neil
>
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