Hello I'm in trouble with a simple shell script that give erroneous value when running ... If I run commands interactively everything runs well > ps ax | grep slapd | grep -v grep | wc -l 1 If I run in the following shell script : #!/bin/sh SD=0 SD=`ps -ax | grep slapd | grep -v grep | wc -l` echo $SD the result is 3 !!! Any info welcome !