begin Alex Malinovich quotation: > I'm sure that I might be missing something obvious here, but after a few > hours I still haven't figured it out. I'm writing a script to detect > whether xscreensaver is running and activate it if it is. If not, it > launches the daemon first and then activates. From the command line, the > following returns the correct exit codes: > > if ps -A |grep -q "[x]screensaver"; then xscreensaver-command -activate > else xscreensaver& xscreensaver-command -activate; fi > > However, if I put that exact line into a shell script and run it, the if > ALWAYS gets evaluated as true. Any ideas? I cannot reproduce your symptoms. Whether I type your code in at the shell prompt or run it in a script, it always behaves correctly. You don't say what shell you're using (or what version); my tests were performed using the version of bash 2.05a.0(1)-release from the Sid package bash_2.05a-11. Craig
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