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bill@TechServSys.com wrote:



> I set up a small script to monitor named:
> part of that script is
> X=`ps -e | grep named`

> when I look at $X I see: 
> 323 d f u 00:00:00 named

> when I do 
>   ps -e | grep named

> I do not get the "d f u" entries.  man ps is silent on the meaning of "d
> f u"














`ps` isn't producing those characters; the shell is.



You have three files in your current directory which match the wildcard
pattern "?": "d", "f" and "u".  JPR apparently has none; and on the
various other systems you tried, you had files named "[" and "l", etc.,
in your current directory.



Observe:



  $ X=`ps -e | grep named`
  $ echo "$X"
    468       ?    00:03:38 named
  $ echo $X  
  468 1 2 L a b f j m p q s t x z 00:03:38 named
  $ X="?"
  $ echo "$X"
  ?
  $ echo $X  
  1 2 L a b f j m p q s t x z



(I have quite a few single-char junk files in my home directory...)



You're just tripping over shell quoting.









>Bela<







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