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On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:

|David Scheidt <dsche...@panix.com> wrote:
|
|> ps ax | grep [s]lapd | wc -l
|>
|> The [] creates a one-character class that doesn't match the regex.
|
|Doesn't [s]lapd need to be quoted?  [] are special to (at least some)
|shells.
Which FreeBSD version do you use? If it above 4.x you could try the 
following:

`pgrep slapd | wc -l'

 or maybe

`pgrep slapd | xargs ps | wc -l'

 or something like this, it depends on your criteria

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