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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
Subject: Re: ps question ....
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On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 10:18:08 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> On 08/09/14 10:01, Polytropon wrote:
> > On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 10:01:00 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> >>
> >> .... is there a way to get ps to show me *everything* running ? 'ps
> >> -elf' works nicely under Fedora 14 ....
> > What about "ps aux"? See "man ps" for details.
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> Thanks, I forgot about the different behavior w/ & w/o the minus sign 
> :-/ ....

As far as I can tell, there is no difference in behaviour.
The commands

	% ps aux

and

	% ps -aux

as well as

	% ps -a -u -x

produce the same output.



-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...