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Don Beusee wrote:
> ps -e on Unix displays “every process running on the system”.  This command
> doesn't do that under cygwin.  Why should it be necessary to supply -W to
> see all processes running on the system?  This makes it incompatible with
> Linux/Unix, and such scripts that rely on -e doing this will not work the
> same on Cygwin.  What is the point to not showing all other processes on the
> system like Linux/Unix does?  This is a silly design and causes headaches
> and frustration for people trying to write scripts that work on cygwin and
> Linux/Unix. Can this be changed please?
>
>   
FWIW I just alias: ps='ps -W'
works fine
roger wells

> -Don
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