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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
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On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 07:48:37PM +1100 I heard the voice of
Peter Jeremy, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> At another level, Unices tend to differ most when it comes to
> administration utilities.  This requires sysadmins to mentally change
> gears as they move between xterm (should I type "ps -ef" or "ps -ax"
> into this terminal?).  Adding (useful) sysadmin utilities from one of
> the more common Unices would seem to be A Good Thing.

That's why you have your shell rc file set up aliases.  A few snips
from mine:

-----
case "FREEBSD":
case "UNKNOWN":
    alias p     'ps -agOuser'
    alias psa   'ps -gaxuww \!* | $PAGER'
    breaksw
case "SOLARIS":
    alias p     '/usr/ucb/ps -agu'
    alias psa   '/usr/ucb/ps -gaxuww \!* | $PAGER'
    breaksw
case "LINUX"
    alias p     'ps ua'
    alias psa   'ps axuww \!* | $PAGER'
    breaksw
-----

And so on.

True, not perhaps as nice as them actually being the same, but what
fun would THAT be?   :)


-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/

"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"