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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: Killing process w/o number (csh)
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Date: 24 Apr 91 21:47:50 GMT
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In article <+-A_7A#@warwick.ac.uk>, cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon) writes:
|> I've always wondered why people always do this rather than
|> 
|> 	ps axc | grep sysline

Because the 'c' option to grep isn't universally supported.  On an A/UX (SysV
based) system:

% ps axc
usage: ps [ -edalf ] [ -c corefile ] [ -s swapdev ] [ -n namelist ] [ -t tlist ]
        [ -p plist ] [ -u ulist ] [ -g glist ]

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