>>> On 8/12/2009 at 5:49 PM, <sunny...@wcb.ab.ca> wrote: > I was asked to find out how many linux guests are running on our z/VM? > the cp commands:Q N is not very suitable for this question.
Why is "q n" not suitable? for guest in $(vmcp q n | sed -f qnames.sed) do grep -q $guest excluded.names || echo $guest done | wc cat qnames.sed s/,//g s/ - DSC$// s/ *- DSC */ /g /^VSM/d s/ -L[0-9]*//g s/ - SYSC//g cat excluded.names DATAMOVE DIRMAINT DISKACNT DTCVSW1 DTCVSW2 EREP FTPSERVE GCS OPERATOR SMTP SNMPD TCPIP and so on. Some adjustments will have to be made based on your local environment, but that should be fairly easy. Mark Post
