For the first loop, you can read a single variable to hold the account names and set the loop on that:-
The second loop confuses me a little. Assuming that you are looking for all process, you can slim this down too:-
The a grabs the first item on the line, the x and the b grabs the rest.
The square brackets in the grep part of the line form an expression with only one option, i.e. and L, but it means that you will not match the grep command itself.
It is possible that you code as it stands is getting the process id of the running script. Pop in a simple message at the beginning to see if that matches.:-
ps can have multi-space delimiters, while cut -d" " handles one-space delimiters. [ ] must be within quotes, otherwise the shell matches it against the current directory.
Enough reasons for awk:
Maybe AIX ps has Posix options? These are more efficient:
Most efficient would be to only grep for the command not its arguments (and you don't need the [ ] trick):
And another optimization is to replace the loop by ---------- Post updated at 01:41 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:27 PM ----------
Back to the original problem.
A for loop on multi-word lines is problematic
It's broken into words. A work-around is
But, as I see now, it is filtered by awk, that gives one word per line, and I don't see a real problem...
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