On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 02:18:16PM -0800, kc123 wrote: > content=`ps auxw | grep [c]rond| awk '{print $11}'`
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ProcessManagement > echo "CONTENT:" $content http://mywiki.wooledge.org/Quotes http://mywiki.wooledge.org/Arguments I would strongly advise that you state what your actual goal is, so that we can help you write a script that will actually accomplish that goal. (And since you are not reporting a bug in bash, please consider using the help-bash mailing list instead.)