Shell Programming and Scripting

ssh -q server1
a=`ps -ef | grep ccms | awk {print $1}` 
b=`ps -ef | grep mss | awk {print $1}` 
# above lines are not working, so i redirected them to a file to use a while loop
ps -ef | grep ccms | awk {print $1} > /tmp/file.txt
ps -ef | grep mss | awk {print $1} >> /tmp/file.txt

while  read i
do 
echo $i
done</tmp/file.txt
# this is not printing the pid's, but if i use cat i am able to get both values, but i want one value at a time.

ps -ef | grep ccms | awk '{print $1}' > /tmp/file.txt
ps -ef | grep mss | awk '{print $1}' >> /tmp/file.txt

cat local_script.sh
ps -ef | grep `whoami` > /tmp/test
while read line
do
        echo $line
done < "/tmp/test"

cat main_script.sh
ssh -q user_name@server_name 'bash -s' < local_script.sh

ssh  server1 <<-EOF
        set -vx
        ps -ef | grep bash | awk '{print $1}'
        a="`ps -ef | grep bash | awk '{print $1}'`"
        echo "\$a"
        EOF