If you're a #Linux person and using the command "ps" with options like "aux" instead of e.g. "-e" (i.e. options without leading "-"), you likely learned the #Unix #commandline on #BSD or maybe SunOS 🧔. (Or by someone who grew up with them. 🙂)

In other news: #TIL that (in either variant) the option "j" (e.g. as "ps ajx" or "ps -ej") also shows the PPID (parent PID, only with BSD style options), PGID (process group ID) und SID (session ID).

#cli #commandlinemagic #ps #shellscripting

@xtaran `ps` is probably one of the wonkiest commands I use daily. Throughout all these years I have accrued options and I have settled for `ps faux`. I'm not really sure if I learned the options from someone else or if the dash-less options appear first on the manpage so I settled for those. And for the life of me, I don't know the variants it's compatible with or which one I'm using :)