begin quoting what Mark J. Reed said on Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 11:35:25PM -0500:
In cases where there was an even wider divergence between the
BSD and System V commands (the ps(1) command being the most infamous
example), you may find the BSD version in /usr/ucb (this is analogous to
but
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 08:12:00AM -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote:
Don't assume, however, that BSD style necessarily is 100% the same
as GNU style.
ps being the example, yet again; the w option doesn't show as much stuff
as you can get with two ws on GNU ps.
You can also put two 'w's on
begin quoting what Mark J. Reed said on Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 08:18:57AM -0500:
You can also put two 'w's on /usr/ucb/ps and get the full command line of
every process,
Nope; it has a cutoff after a certain number of characters, and there's
nothing you can do about it.
We ran into this
On Wed, 03 Apr 2002, Shawn McMahon wrote:
I suggested we install GNU ps, but nobody in management wanted to hear that.
I feel blessed. I have two species of management. The first kind
wouldn't recognize a server if it reached out and smacked them.
The second species wants to sound like
(hacker),..
so we just need the first number before the first space.
easy:
$ id | sed -e 's/^uid=\([0-9][0-9]*\).*/\1/'`
10077
works for me
of course this is much easier with the ZShell:
$ echo $EUID
10077
ZShell rules! :-)
Sven
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On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 05:55:25AM +0200, Sven Guckes wrote:
* Matthew D. Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-03-27 11:50]:
.. I end up having to work around Solaris'
braindamage in a number of ways.
For instance, on every OTHER OS (including
pre-Solaris-renaming SunOS, HP/UX 9, NeXT Mach),
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 11:27:31PM -0500, Mark J. Reed wrote:
/usr/xpg4/bin/id -u
To expand upon this:
When SunOS becamse Solaris, its base moved from BSD (Berkeley's
UNIX-based OS) to System V (official UNIX from ATT).
For compatibility with System V applications (and with the POSIX
