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Output of ps + awk in a variable to get PID

Hi All,

I am getting the PID of a process using its name using the following command
in a script

Code:
mypid=`ps aux | awk '/test5/ && !/awk/ { print $2 }'`
echo PID is $mypid

The problem is the PID is not getting printed. But when i run the command directly in shell, the PID got printed.

May i know where am going wrong in the script code?

Thanks in advance.
Amio
 
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NAME
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