infi pon pid in shell script

[Karthik_sg]

ps ux | awk '/runmojo/ && !/awk/ {print $2}'

i want to store the above in a variablesay for ex:
a=ps ux | awk '/runmojo/ && !/awk/ {print $2}'

but thn when i print $a it gives an empty string.Can u help me on this pls

[Hemmetter]

Hi,

try
# a=$(a=ps ux | awk '/runmojo/ && !/awk/ {print $2}')

or

# a=$(ps -C runmojo -o pid)


rgds
HGH

[Karthik_sg]

I have found a solution to this question by myself