[ubuntu-in] does anybody know what ps -ef | wc -l stand for?

[shirish]

Hi all,
 does anybody what does the above command is doing?

The first part of the command is about giving a list of processes

ps -ef

wc is about  print newline, word, and byte counts for each file
basically tells how many words are in a document or something.

so If I get

$ ps -ef | wc -l
121

does it mean that each processes has 121 words (or an average of 121 words)

If yes, is that too big or small?

Looking forward for answer/suggestion on the same.
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