Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:41:44 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Thomas Quinot <thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for comments on a new utility... Message-ID: <3D064468.D1B1F2C6@mindspring.com> References: <20020611051517.A87966@FreeBSD.ORG> <20020611143957.A17613@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <20020611063348.A97611@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Juli Mallett wrote:
> > |-omniNames---omniNames---3*[omniNames]
>
> That seems frighteningly useless to me though. Seems a bit like a number of
> utilities I've seen from the Linux camp which take useful functionality and
> mask it behind something that looks good. What exactly can you get from
> that kind of output?
>
> > with the following being printed if you ask for pids ('-p'):
> >
> > |-omniNames(313)---omniNames(335)-+-omniNames(336)
> > | |-omniNames(338)
> > | `-omniNames(345)
>
> That output's pretty useful, on the other hand, but it seems overly difficult
> to do that sort of formatting without kludging everything with a lot of
> conditionals and rather than simple recursion, something more complex.
Theres a program in -ports.
If you insist on doing it, though, look at the output of
"w -d" (yeah, I have a vested interest in it, but it's still
pretty cool).
-- Terry
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