Using Pipes in the Bash Shell

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 10, 2011

[ Thanks to Andrew
Weber
for this link. ]

“2. Check number of users logged in who | wc -l

“Here you are piping the command who, which shows the users
logged in and sending the output into wc which will count the lines
“-l” so come up with a number of users.

“3. Check processes ps aux | grep mingetty

“List all processes that have the text string mingetty. The ps
command with the “aux” options will show all the processes
currently running whether they were started as daemons or users
started them. The grep command is a great tool to search for text
strings.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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