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Old 05-14-2004
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Use wc -l to count the lines of the output

i.e.

Code:
if [ $( ps -ef | grep wtrs | wc -l ) -gt "3" ];
then
   # do stuff for more than 3 lines
else
   # do stuff for three or less lines
fi

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