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Old 10-26-2010
Why am i receiving too many argument error with this?

Code:
#!/bin/bash
while [ `ps -ef | grep firefox-bin` ]
do
codes
done

it says line 2: [: too many arguments
why?

Last edited by pludi; 10-27-2010 at 04:10 AM..
 

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