Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > ps -fu 'whoami' This just passes the text whoami as a group argument with no execution of whoami. ps -fu whoami ^ Equivalent command > ps -fu `whoami` The accent graves tell bash to execute the text inside them. The whoami command will be executed then passed to ps -fu. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines