Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Guys,

I am running a script which will refresh the views in my database.
After running the script, when i ran ps -ef | grep "script_name"

I found there are two entries for the same script process (actually 3 including the grep process).

/bin/ksh path/scriptname
sh -c path/scriptname

Why there are two process entry for the same script and what can be understood from the two process..
Can we find out which is the parent process?

Thanks for ur help in advance.
Magesh.

Please check the PID and PPID of the 2 processes ( 2nd and 3rd column in ps -ef output ), you can make out which one is the parent.

It is very comon that shell scripts are executing subshells. this hppen f.eg. every time u use a | or a () statement. also some loop constructs are running in a subshell.
U can determine the parent in the 2. culoumn of the ps command.

7279 7278
7278 288

this is the information u said.. u mean to say then 7278 is the parent rite??

that is right.