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Wed, 04 September 2002 11:19

AL
Messages: 24
Registered: October 2000

Junior Member

The following doesn't work:

ps -ef | grep $name | grep -v grep > tmpfile

It works hard coded but when the $name is put in grep errors.

Thu, 05 September 2002 14:42

andrew again
Messages: 2577
Registered: March 2000

Senior Member

try this:

#!/bin/ksh
name=$1
ps -ef | grep "$name" | grep -v grep > tmpfile

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