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Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 09:23:48 -0400
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On 8/4/2016 9:20 AM, Mark Hansen wrote:
> On 8/4/2016 6:12 AM, Eliot Moss wrote:
>> So, a couple of things ...
>>
>> Cygwin definitely supports gawk - I use it all the time.
>> My system has a link from awk to gawk, so awk will work.
>> I can't recall if I added that link or if it came with
>> the installation.  awk may be in a separate package
>> that you'll have to install from the Cygwin package
>> installer.
>
> I have a fresh installation of Cygwin and /usr/bin/awk is a link to /usr/bin/gawk - FYI
>
>>
>> As for ps, it works, but it will show only Cygwin
>> related processes.  It may have other limitations
>> as well, because it might be impossible or very
>> difficult to support some POSIX features under
>> Windows.
>
> Cygwin ps allows for a -W command-line argument which tells it to include all windows processes.
> There are other arguments like -l for "long" mode, -f for "full" mode, etc.

Thanks for the additional info!

On Windows, procps is useful, but of course it's Windows-specific ...

Regards - EM

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