Yes 2000 is nwhat I needed.

Hello, just one more question and I'm hoping someone can help me as I know it's simple for someone more experienced. How do I add these two variables to make it equal "0". For example, I need the sum of $CNT1 and $CNT2. I kinda giot screwed up towards the bottom of the script.

#!/bin/bash


PID1=$(ps -ef | grep -i "wxs_catalog_coherence" | grep -v grep)
PID2=$(ps -ef | grep -i "wxs_catalog_profile" | grep -v grep)

CNT1=$(ps -p $PID1 -m -o THREAD | wc -l)
CNT2=$(ps -p $PID2 -m -o THREAD | wc -l)



(( $CNT1 > 2000 )) && echo $CNT1 || echo "0"
(( $CNT2 > 2000 )) && echo $CNT2 || echo "0"

The result is prints out this output:

$ ./threadcount
0
0

I just need it to print out the sum of the two variables $CNT1 and $CNT2. Into one numer. I would most likely expect a "0" in most scenarios. Thanks.

Print $PID1 and $PID2; I doubt they're integers.
Kevin Barry

That just printed out the existing PID id's. What I am looking for is adding both $CNT1 and $CNT2 together. I have to have just one value for output.

It seems lots of people keep directing you so sites but it does not appear you are reading many / any of them. Bash arithmetic can be performed with expr, let or (()).
I will leave it up to you to work out which you prefer.

I'm not sure which sites you are referring to and I have been going to many of them to save myself from asking people for help, but I will try and do this on my own from now on.

If you're getting integers for $PID1 and $PID2 then your ps -ef shows something completely different than mine. My ps doesn't support the command-line format you use when setting CNT1 and CNT2, either. At this point I think you need to go through man ps and assemble what you need a step at a time in the terminal.
Kevin Barry

To answer your basic question:

You can add the values together using commands like expr or bc (expr doesn't work for very large numbers or do floating point so bc is sometimes used when expr doesn't work.

--OR--

Note that for floating point you have to use "bc -l" instead of just bc.

Whenever someone mentions a command you can find out more about the command by typing "man <command>" and/or "info <command>".

The shells have a lot built into them so you can do math without requiring external commands but being an old UNIX Admin I tend to continue using the commands above.

Thanks, that was quite helpful Mensa.