On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 06:50:33PM -0500, Rick Meyerhoff wrote: >Try this: > >1. Save this one line shell script into a file called foo.sh: > ># >sleep 200 ># > >2. $ chmod 755 foo.sh >3. $ ./foo.sh >4. In another terminal: >$ ps -e | grep '*foo.sh*' > >Why doesn't the process show up? because of the *'s. if you just: ps -e | grep foo.sh ps -e | grep 'foo.sh' it shows. > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Linux Administrator || Technology Specialist || Wifi Engineer http://autonomous.tv/~spencer/resume/ || spencer at autonomous.tv Key fingerprint = 173B 8760 E59F DBF8 6FD2 68F8 ABA2 AB08 49C7 4754 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20031012/25d905cd/attachment.pgp