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Originally Posted by mccrack You are an absoloute star!!!!! Thanx , that did the trick !!!!
Hmmm, back ticks .... never would have thought.
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That is how you have to do it. Otherwise PID actually equals
ps -ef | grep process | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'. Instead of the actual PID number.
Putting everything in back ticks tells your shell to execute everything within the back ticks.
I feel stupid for not seeing it right away.