What is the point of the below in a script?  This snippage is in the 'stop' portion of an init script.  I just dont see the point of the if statement. It almost looks like it's just making sure $pid isn't empty.


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pid=`/bin/ps -e | grep process_name | grep -v mon | grep -v grep | sed -e 's/^  *//' -e 's/ .*//' | head -1`
    if [ "X$pid" != "X" ]
    then
            /bin/kill $pid
            echo "**process_name** interface stopped"
    fi
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Thanks,
David

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