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 ? -- mark saad | nonesuch at longcount.org