Happy Almost New Year! I want to run a command inside a script. From the shell, here's the command:
% ps -ef | /bin/egrep '/usr/lib/sendmail' | /bin/grep -v grep | /bin/awk '{print $2}' 19460 What is returned is the pid of the process being grep'd. But, when I put this into a test script, my $pid = `ps -ef | /bin/egrep '/usr/lib/sendmail' | /bin/grep -v grep | /bin/awk '{print $2}'`; print "\$pid is: $pid \n"; here's what I'm seeing , $pid is: root 19460 1 0 Dec 18 ? 0:08 /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q15m -- It seems to be only going as far as dropping off the grep, and not doing the awk '{print $2}'. I've tried this with the system() call, with the same results. What am I missing? :-( deb -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>