"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
In a message dated: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:42:00 EST
Benjamin Scott said:
>Most things have de facto standards, but a few do not.
>In my case, "mt" comes to mind :-)
You know, you really ought to merge them all into a "Super-mt" command :)
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Derek D. Martin wrote:
> For example, on Linux
Also, don't forget that Linux is (technically) just a kernel, and one
Linux system may use a different implementation of "ps" than another. Or
any other command. Most things have de facto standards, but a few do not.
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> In a message dated: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:48:58 EST
> Benjamin Scott said:
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> > For that case, your problem is your background. The command you provide
> >uses BSD syntax. Solaris is a ba
Tru64 supports both BSD (actually Unix 95) syntax as well as System V
syntax on virtually all commands. In the few cases where the commands
conflict, there is an environment variable you can set.
Even system calls can take on either BSD or System V behavior by setting
the appropriate "habitat"
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Paul Lussier wrote:
> Quite true. HP-UX and True64 used the same syntax IIRC.
As does IRIX.
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In a message dated: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:48:58 EST
Benjamin Scott said:
> For that case, your problem is your background. The command you provide
>uses BSD syntax. Solaris is a based on System V, not BSD. Try "ps -ef"
>instead. You will have this problem on any SysV-based system.
Quite true
In a message dated: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:02:22 EST
"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 ex
In a message dated: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:02:22 EST
"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 ex
In a message dated: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:41:10 EST
Rich Payne said:
>It's good to know I'm not the only one who thinks that. I quite often
>think that Sun, in laying out the file system not only used some random
>path generator, but also made sure the file was not in the same place as
>any oth
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Mansur, Warren wrote:
> 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.
Just i
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Mansur, Warren wrote:
> 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
7; on Sun and see
what happens.
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Paul Lussier wrote:
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> Amusingly, this mornin
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Paul Lussier wrote:
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> Amusingly, this morning I found myself reviewing the first chapter of
> the forthcoming Evi Nemeth, et. al, book, The Linux System
> Administration Handbook, and I came across this paragraph:
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>
> ...the differences between UNIX and Linu
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