Ok, I admit my grep was a bit faulty. I find bash processes with this: $ ps -e |grep '.*as.*' 2432 pts/2 00:00:00 bash 2444 pts/4 00:00:00 bash 2467 pts/5 00:00:00 bash 15087 pts/5 00:00:00 bash 15366 pts/4 00:00:00 bash but substituting 'foo' for 'as' makes no difference, I still don't see my script running. In fact if you capture all the output of ps with $ ps -e > bar and simply look at the end of the list, you see the sleep but not foo.sh. Rick Meyerhoff wrote: > I tried all those and I still don't see it. I know it does not make any > sense. Did you guys actually try it? > > 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? _______________________________________________ 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