problem with shell script

[Samuel Martín Moro]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Chad Kellerman <sunckell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet at esiee.fr> wrote:
>
> > 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 !!!
> >
>
ps ax | grep "[/]slapd " | wc -l
may not fix the problem
but still cleaner

>  >
> > Any info welcome !
> >
>
> What's the name of your script?  Hope it's not slapd_check.sh that will
> cause and extra count in the ps, cus it will count itself.
>
>
> Chad
>
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