problem with shell script

[Chad Kellerman]

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 !!!
>
>
> 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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