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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting ps -eaf gives inconsistent result Post 302518306 by ygemici on Friday 29th of April 2011 08:38:42 AM
Old 04-29-2011
I dont think the reason for this due to different o.s. actually it can be differ for when used in different shells or shell versions.
Try `which ksh` and compare version of kshs.
In your script, has used pipes. Maybe because of this, cause get different output in debug mode when in some kshs,
it writes as output it with unordered in ksh own internal buffer which probably caughted first command writes firstly it and after then others in pipes commas.

You can try to look output of ksh debug , add `sleep 1` your script after the `ps ..` command.

regards
ygemici
 

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