Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:32:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: dnelson@allantgroup.com (Dan Nelson) Cc: jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu (Jerry McAllister), bts@babbleon.org (Brian T. Schellenberger), bill@techservsys.com (bill), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help a poor refuge from SCO UNIX (SysV) Message-ID: <200208202232.g7KMWFB11583@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020820221951.GA86652@dan.emsphone.com> from "Dan Nelson" at Aug 20, 2002 05:19:51 PM
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> > In the last episode (Aug 20), Jerry McAllister said: > > > On Tuesday 20 August 2002 11:03 am, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > | Note: some systems will process both BSD and SYSV ps arguments, > > > | depending on whether you start with a dash. To be safe, always > > > | leave the dash off when using BSD flags. "ps ax". > > > > > > Hmmm . . . but the FreeBSD man page documents using the dash for > > > the BSD options. It always makes mea little nervous to > > > deliberately depart from the man page. > > > > Use it the way the man page says. I don't understand that previous > > statement being so generalized or universally made. In my experience > > using the minus almost always works except for a couple of things and > > there seem to be plenty that are unfriendly without it. > > To be specific: Tru64 and Linux both process ps commandline arguments > this way. > > Linux: Unix options may be grouped and must be preceeded by a dash. > BSD options may be grouped and must not be used with a dash. > GNU long options are preceeded by two dashes. > > Tru64: > ps [-aAdejflm] [-o specifier] [=header] ,... [-O specifier] [=header] > ,... [-g glist] [-G glist] [-p plist] [-s slist] [-t tlist] [-u > ulist] [-U ulist] [-n nlist] > > [Tru64 UNIX] The following BSD compatible options can be used with > ps (note that these options are not prefixed with a - (dash) > character): > > ps [aAeghjlLmsSTuvwx] [o specifier] [=header] ,... [O specifier] > ,... [=header] [t tty] [process_number] > Sure. But what I said is still true. It works that way. ////jerry > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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