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Subject: Re: I hope this won't ignite a major flame war, but I've got to know!
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From: dholland@scws33.harvard.edu (David Holland)
Date: 25 Jul 1994 21:07:07 GMT
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 > Why do people like the BSD ps options? 

Largely because we're used to them.

 > There's no way to restrict the list, except to the current session,
 > or grepping the output. 

There's -t, to select a terminal; ps -tp6 lists only what's on ttyp6.
For example.

Does AT&T ps have an equivalent of -x?

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   - David A. Holland          | "The right to be heard does not automatically
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