Output of ps + awk in a variable to get PID

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi All,

I am getting the PID of a process using its name using the following command
in a script

mypid=`ps aux | awk '/test5/ && !/awk/ { print $2 }'`
echo PID is $mypid

The problem is the PID is not getting printed. But when i run the command directly in shell, the PID got printed.

May i know where am going wrong in the script code?

Thanks in advance.
Amio

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What kind of script is it? It's probably not that same as the shell you are working from.

Your command wouldn't work in my console. But it did when I changed it to this.

set a = `ps aux | awk '/test5/ && \!/awk/ {print $2}'`
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# mypid=`ps aux | awk '/sshd/ && !/awk/ { print $2 }'`
# echo PID is $mypid
PID is 2077 2801 2806 2985 3410

Read man ps for -w option.
In the same time you should read man pgrep .