problem with shell script

[Chip Camden]

Quoth Frank Bonnet on Wednesday, 12 January 2011:
> 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 !
> 
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Ever hear of pgrep(1)?

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