From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@gmail.com>
To: CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org>
Sent: Thu, March 17, 2011 6:31:15 AM
Subject: Re: [CentOS] ssh remote execute awk problem


>>    grep ^processor /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l

>> Or:

>>    ssh -l $TARGETUSER $TARGETHOST "[ -e /proc/cpuinfo ] -a grep
^processor | wc -l"


No need to use "wc -l" when grep is enough. E.g

ssh root@server "grep -c ^processor /proc/cpuinfo"
4

Thanks
Sheraz