c, pass awk syntax as argument to execl

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Published on 2010-04-17T21:20:58Z Indexed on 2010/04/17 21:23 UTC
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I want to run following command in c to read systems cpu and memory usage:

ps aux|awk 'NR > 0 { cpu +=$3; ram+=$4 }; END {print cpu,ram}'

I am trying to pass it to execl command and after that read its output:

execl("/bin/ps", "/bin/ps", "aux|awk", "'NR > 0 { cpu +=$3; ram+=$4 }; END {print cpu,ram}'",(char *) 0);

but in terminal i am getting following error:

ERROR: Unsupported option (BSD syntax) I would like to know how to properly pass awk as argument to execl?

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