how many users?

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My God, that's overly expensive.  Every chain I've seen posted has been.
Why not use the proper version of grep which has desirable regex support?

ps auxww | egrep "([dr](clerk|report))|runmenu" | grep -v grep | wc -l

That's it.  Done.  Well, more or less.  It counts all runtime and
development versions of clerk and report.  I believe you need to count
[dr]cabe, ddefine, dxmaint, dmoedef, and dscreen as well, to get the full
count.  I'm not 100% sure -all- of those binaries use licenses, but I
know cabe does, and it was just posted that runmenu does (at least on
Windows, so I'm extrapolating to *nix).  It makes sense that if runmenu
does, the rest do.  Add or remove command names as necessary.

ps auxww | egrep "([dr](clerk|report|cabe))|runmenu|dxmaint|dscreen|ddefine|dmoedef" | grep -v grep | wc -l

If you're stuck with a SysV version of `ps`, use '-aef' instead of 'auxww'
for options.

ONE line.  ONE.

mark->

On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 11:29:44AM -0600, Richard D. Williams thus spoke:
> Ernie,
> 
> What a simple solution.
> I do not know if it is "exactly" how fp does it, but it would give me a 
> very close number.
> 
> Here is the script:
> 
> rm -f /tmp/fpnum.txt
> ps -ef | grep dclerk >> /tmp/fpnum.txt
> ps -ef | grep rclerk >> /tmp/fpnum.txt
> ps -ef | grep rreport >> /tmp/fpnum.txt
> ps -e f | grep dreport >> /tmp/fpmun.txt
> wc -l /tmp/fpnum.txt | awk {' print $1 }'
> 
> This can now be set into a script /usr/local/bin/count_fpusers and used 
> inside a filepro program as a user command.
> 
> user uniq =  /usr/local/bin/count_fpusers;n(4,.0)=uniq;close uniq;msgbox n
> 
> Wow. Senior moment. I went to write this script and found I had already 
> figured this out years ago.
> 
> Here is the script:
> 
> DATE="`date '+%m/%d/%y|%H:%M:%S'`"
> ps -ef | grep clerk > /tmp/FPUSERS.txt
> ps -ef | grep report >> /tmp/FPUSERS.txt
> FPUSERS="`cat /tmp/FPUSERS.txt | wc -l`"
> echo "$DATE|$FPUSERS|" >> /appl/LOG_FPUSERS
> 
> I use this to keep a running log of the number of users every 10 mins..
> 
> The new script above still will work as needed within any filepro program.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Richard D. Williams
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ps -ef |grep rclerk
> 
> On 12/2/2013 10:53 AM, ernieb59 wrote:
> > Richard,
> > ps -ef |grep rclerk
> > will show how many instances of 'rclerk' are running.
> > Same for any filePro executable.
> >
> > Ernie
> >
> >
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> > Subject: how many users?
> >
> > Is there a way to determine the number of filepro users from the command
> > line in a linux system?
> >
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