how to find out number of currently running process in a terminal

[spymate]

i just wanted to know, how find out number of currently running process in a terminal using
c code, number of process are running and sleeping

[Lakshmipathi]

I'm not sure whether we have built-in functions for this.

For below procedure you will need to write a C program to open files and exact the string....
But /proc will have process id as well as process name.

/proc/pid/stat

See the process name with '(' and ')'

check
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man proc
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[aruntomar2001]

there are files with the extension .pid created in the /var/run/ folder. this may give you a clue for the running process & process id. you can write program to read those files.