"Mansur, Warren" said: >My biggest complaint is that half the tools, such as 'ps', 'tar', etc . >. ., only seem to accept half as many options as other UNIX platforms, >so I always have learn two versions of each command -- one for all >UNIXes except Sun, and Sun. Example: try tying 'ps aux' on Sun and see >what happens. >
I swap between BSD & Sys V unixen all the time. My most common command seems to be ps [commands] | egrep [regexp]. So I put this in my start ups (ksh/bash syntax follows) and alias to psg: # Which ps args does the OS take? psax=$(ps ax 2>&1 | wc -l) pse=$(ps -ef 2>&1 | wc -l) if [ $psax -gt $pse ] then ps_cmd=aux # BSDish ps else ps_cmd=-ef # SYSVish ps (OSF, Linux RH 6.0 pick this) fi alias psg="ps $ps_cmd | egrep" psg . is like running w/o the egrep. -- ------- Tom Buskey ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
