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At some point hitherto, Paul Lussier hath spake thusly:
> 
> 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.  HP-UX and True64 used the same syntax IIRC.

Yes, they use System V syntax.

> I'm pretty impressed with how Linux handles this though, if you use
> -elf, you get the SysV behavior.  If you use 'aux' you get the BSD
> behavior.  It seems that options preceded by a '-' are SysV and
> without are BSD.

Not exactly, but close.  Options specified without a dash are treated
as BSD options, whereas options specified with a dash are Unix98
options.  These are not the same as SysV options and actually include
a number of BSD options.  For example, on Linux,

  ps -aux
  ps aux

do the same thing.  However,

  ps -ef
  ps ef

Do NOT do the same thing.

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