That might be true on your system, but on mine, the vertical bar works just fine.
For a simple test, I tried "ls ! more", and got FSUM6785 File or directory "!" is not found If you use !, I think that it's local to your box. -- Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation RO-OC-1-13 200 First Street SW 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 ----- "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different." -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pohlen Mailinglist Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 9:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Two silly questions about USS or OMVS on Z/OS in omvs you use the exclamation mark instead of the pipe symbol. I know that this is a difference to normal unix systems, therefore I have mentioned it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Gilmartin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 4:13 PM Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Two silly questions about USS or OMVS on Z/OS > In a recent note, Pohlen Mailinglist said: > > > Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:50:47 +0100 > > > > just as every unix, go into omvs and enter ps -ef ! grep xxx. Pay attention, > > > My experience is that the options for "ps" are not the same for "every unix". > Is "ps" standardized by POSIX? > > > the sign behind the ps -ef is an exclamation mark. > > > Shouldn't that, rather, be a pipe symbol? > > -- gil > -- > StorageTek > INFORMATION made POWERFUL > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
