Difference between Command Line and KSH script

[jmanj]

In the unix command line(sun solaris), when I enter the following command:
ps -ef|grep ScanFileClient|grep -v grep|tr -s ' '|cut -d ' ' -f 3,10,12

I get the result as:

5576 ScanFileClient CB123
5577 ScanfileClient CB124

However if I put the following same command in a ksh script:

for i in `ps -ef|grep ScanFileClient|grep -v grep|tr -s ' '|cut -d ' ' -f 3,10,12`;do

echo " $i Active"

done


I get the result as:

5576 Active
ScanFileClient Active
CB123 Active
5577 Active
ScanFileClient Active
CB124 Active


What is the difference?? All I wanted is the result should be

5576 ScanFileClient CB123 Active
5577 ScanFileClient CB124 Active


Any help will be appreciated.

jmanj

 

[Annihilannic]

How about:

[tt]ps -ef|grep ScanFileClient|grep -v grep|tr -s ' '|cut -d ' ' -f 3,10,12 | xargs -n1 -i echo {} Active[/tt]

When you use the `backticks` around a command the output is concatenated, all one line, separated by spaces, e.g.

[tt]for i in 5576 ScanFileClient CB123 5577 ScanfileClient CB124;do
[/tt]

Then your for loop processes each word separately.

Annihilannic.

 

[jmanj]

Annihilannic

It works!!!!!

Thank you so much.

jmanj