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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 17:50:10 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ps output format
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In-Reply-To: <0dcd01c03c73$383cfb00$478c06d5@default>; from a.eibach@gmx.net on Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 08:01:05PM +0200

On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 08:01:05PM +0200, Andreas Eibach wrote:
>> The day I learned ps -a, ps -A, ps a, and ps A are all legal and
>> completely different on the same box with the same binary is the
>> day I lost it.
> 
>yup, and on Linux, this ugly thing always keeps shouting "deprecated!" at
>me, just because I do the same I've been doing since 1995:
>
>So, you *ought* to use...
>
>$ ps ef
>
>instead of
>
>$ ps -ef
>
>Oh my god. Yeah, PS can be nuisant sometimes.

Actually, on linux that would be something like 'ps auwwwx', although
this is off-topic for this mailing list...

cgf

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