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Date:      Sun, 10 Aug 2014 12:12:39 -0400
From:      Paul Kraus <paul@kraus-haus.org>
To:        "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ps question ....
Message-ID:  <F58F168F-57CA-4112-9B44-B92DC75EFA7D@kraus-haus.org>
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References:  <53E637AC.3010008@hiwaay.net> <20140809170150.0b1c9486.freebsd@edvax.de> <53E63BB0.2080700@hiwaay.net>

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It is the difference between SysV and BSD behavior... 

ps -ef is SysV 

ps -aux(www) is BSD

They each return slightly different information. Solaris used to include both, which you got depended on your path :-)

Sent from my portable device

> On Aug 9, 2014, at 11:18, "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 08/09/14 10:01, Polytropon wrote:
>>> On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 10:01:00 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>> 
>>> .... is there a way to get ps to show me *everything* running ? 'ps
>>> -elf' works nicely under Fedora 14 ....
>> What about "ps aux"? See "man ps" for details.
> 
> 
> Thanks, I forgot about the different behavior w/ & w/o the minus sign :-/ ....
> 
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