Hi! > I guess the '\n' is a typo added by accident, > after removing it then: Actually it shouldn't matter, most of the sysfs files have newline at the end so that you can just cat them and see the value in terminal nicely. $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max |xxd 00000000: 3332 3736 380a 32768. -- Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz