So, the script is working pretty well now, but I'm testing a case that...
In my opinion should not work, but the program "understands" it anyway and fortunately acts correctly !
Here it is:
When I search for a pattern like "proc.sh" in lines like
"more proc.sh"
"grep proc.sh"
"/bin/ksh ./proc.sh" ---> using grep, it returns all this lines, and that's ok, 'cause in fact they all have this "proc.sh" pattern.
But searching for a pattern like "./proc.sh"
in "/bin/ksh proc.sh", for example, the grep still returns this line as result ! Why this happens ? I'm not passing any parameter, so
wasn't grep supposed to find for an occurance of the ENTIRE pattern ./proc.sh ? I thaught it was ...
Well, here's the current code for the script:
If anyone could help...
Thanks in advance,
I don't follow you. If you think that the grep command is broken, try this as a way to test it:
echo "/bin/ksh proc.sh" | grep "./proc.sh"
this does not return the echo line for me. But if I remove the ./ from the grep, I do get the line.
I wasn't clear enough in last question, forget it...
Now I'm stuck in the following problem:
Every word I use as the $1 parameter makes the code enter into the if - although the ps -e -o args | grep "$1" , executed alone, doesn't return any lines beggining with "/bin/ksh" !
There's something you think could be bugging the script ?
This is so strange... because the script was working properly last friday ! Can exist any process with the $1 in the args list that isn't shown with the "ps -e ..." ? I don't think so...
Maybe my user in the Unix server here doesn't have access to view all the processes running ?
I've found the mistake...
The fact was that when that code was run as a script, that script turned into a process... as usual, so far...
And running the grep at this point would find a line correspondent to this script, as it contained the $1 , because it was passed as argument...
And this line actually starts with "/bin/ksh", because it is a running script... so it entered the if...
And it will allways do so, that way
I'm working on to fix this now
I'll post the final script - one that works properly - when I'm done !
Thanks for all.
=| 435 Gavea |=
Last edited by 435 Gavea; 11-18-2003 at 07:45 PM..
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