From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 2 20:36:01 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DD10106567B for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2011 20:36:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4177714E239; Wed, 2 Nov 2011 20:35:29 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4EB1A990.7080001@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:35:28 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111001 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Saad References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is going on with ash / sh X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:36:01 -0000 On 11/02/2011 13:28, Mark Saad wrote: > 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 ? I only see one. What happens if you run this on the command line? -- "We could put the whole Internet into a book." "Too practical." Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/