> I would like to know how to determine the number of processors under the
> different supported operating systems:
> 
> IRIX5:

The best I could come up with is

ps -e | grep "^ *[0-9]" | wc -l

grep could be replaced by ${GREP}.
All grep, ps, and wc are in /sbin/, in case you prefer absolute paths.

The above should more or less work on all sysV systems.



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