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Get just the number of processes on your Linux machine.

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This command will print the number of running processes on a Linux system.

4.4 Tue Oct 30 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ ps aux | wc -l
255

Here is a nice alternative that will work on Ubuntu. The landscape-common package will install this utility.

4.4 Tue Oct 30 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ landscape-sysinfo | grep Processes: | awk '{print $5}'
258

This is an easier version of the above command line.

4.4 Tue Oct 30 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ landscape-sysinfo --sysinfo-plugins=Processes | awk '{print $2}'
259

These one-liners print out the number of processes and are actually accurate. Very useful to have in a script.


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