In the last episode (Nov 02), Mark Saad said:
> 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 ?
What does your script do? If it contains subshells or pipelines, the main
process will fork child processes to handle those.
--
Dan Nelson
dnel...@allantgroup.com
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