more help with bash script please
 

i cant for the life of me figgure out how to get the output of this into a variable:

ps -A | grep myprocessname | awk '{print $1}'

i can get it in as a string, ive tried all sorts of stuff, but i would just like to have the output of that in a variable called "pid"

please and thanks

Using backticks ( ` ) like this ....

#!/bin/bash

pid=`ps -A | grep firefox | awk '{print $1}'`

echo "$pid"

edit:

i spoke too soon, works great

edit: i spoke too soon

I have echo "$pid"

sorry, it all works, i just forgot to change firefox to the name of my program
thanks for the help, it works perfectly
(sidenote: using ""'s perserves whitespeace, but withouth them the content wil still be output)

Yeah, I'm used to having something else along with the variable. :)
Like this...
echo "This is your pid: $pid"