James Carlson wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> One particular annoyance of mine being that it is fairly easy to write a
>> single ps which does both "ps -ef" and "ps uxga".
>
> Not only easy to write, but that's the default on other OSes. (AIX
> had that a decade or more ago. :-<)
>
> That's one of the sorts of things that are hard to fix, even though
> easy to write. It's not a big project, and you can't point to $1e9 of
> new revenue to fix minor annoyances, so it has to be done in someone's
> copious free time.
>
Agreed, especially since both ps's are really the same program:
% ls -ilF /usr/bin/ps /usr/ucb/ps
198275 -r-xr-xr-x 71 root bin 8164 Jan 27 02:11 /usr/bin/ps*
198275 -r-xr-xr-x 71 root bin 8164 Jan 27 02:11 /usr/ucb/ps*
I'm sure we'll get this done eventually... :-)
In the meantime: I was whining about this to Andy Rudoff a few years ago,
and he quickly came back with the following csh alias to paper over
the difference:
# Use /usr/ucb/ps if there is no argument starting with a -
alias ps '(if ("\!*" == "") exec /usr/bin/ps; if ("\!*" =~ -*) exec
/usr/bin/ps
\!*; exec /usr/ucb/ps \!*)'
Later, I put this into my .bashrc:
# Use /usr/ucb/ps if there are arguments and they start without a '-'.
# This lets me cling to to the BSD flags while still having standard
# ps available.
function ps() {
case "$1" in
-*|"")
/usr/bin/ps $*
;;
*)
/usr/ucb/ps $*
;;
esac
}
I still think we should adopt the merged behavior, but this has
made my fingers happy for several years now.
- Ali
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