What is going on with ash / sh

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Wed Nov 2 20:36:01 UTC 2011


On 11/02/2011 13:28, Mark Saad wrote:
> Hackers
>  What is going on here, if I run the following shell script, what is
> the expected output . The script is named xxx
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> ps -ax | grep -v grep | grep xxx
> 
> Here is what I see
> 
> 
>  # sh xxx
> 88318  p0  S+     0:00.00 sh xxx
> 88320  p0  R+     0:00.00 sh xxx
> 88321  p0  R+     0:00.00 sh xxx
> 
> 
> Can someone explain this ?

I only see one. What happens if you run this on the command line?



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