Problem :
I am looking for. a command that I can list the number of running processes by superuser root and pipe it to wc -l
i already did ps -ef | grep ^$USER wc -l however that only shows for the current user
Solution :
To display all root processes use:
sudo ps -U root -u root -o comm= | wc -l
Where:
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-U: select real user ID -
-u: select effective user ID -
-o comm=: select no columns, so the header line will not be output.