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But why would you use ax instead of -A if grepping? Since -A doesn't display the arguments, grep won't match itself. I prefer ps -Alw or ps -AH for most ...
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- 12-25-2002 #11Linux Guru
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But why would you use ax instead of -A if grepping? Since -A doesn't display the arguments, grep won't match itself. I prefer ps -Alw or ps -AH for most of my ps usage. ps -Al | sort +9n is a favorite of mine.
- 12-26-2002 #12Linux User
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ok, slight ditto on the grep..
I also pass 99% of my ps calls to grep, but i just do
ps -A | grep
because i dont usually care who is running it, but the aux options may be what wassy needed because he may have cared who was running whatmajorwoo
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- 12-26-2002 #13Linux Guru
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It still seems wrong to explicitly first select all processes with tty and then all without tty. I'd use "ps -A u" even though it's one character longer. Of course, ps aux is easier to write fast. That does speak in favor of it.
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