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Old 04-11-2007
Question current running process in shell

hi
what is the shell programming code to know the number of processes currently running on the machine & information about those processes.

Another one is the configuration and usage of the UNIX file system?

requesting all for help.

thanks
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Old 04-12-2007
information about process is from ps

man ps

would have all the detailed information with options and the notations / symbols used by ps
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