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--vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:14:36PM -0700, Mischa Spiegelmock wrote: > And to think some people actually have the nerve to claim UNIX-style =20 > operating systems are not user-friendly! > Here we are, in the year two thousand and six of our Lord, and UNIX =20 > commands still somehow manage to be as hateful as ever. > Anyway, the subject of my hate tonight is the command to list =20 > processes, also known as "ps." (Which may I point out is a horribly =20 > unintuitive name in itself, but I digress). >=20 > I'm sitting there trying to remember how to display output in "tree" =20 > mode. > The ps usage tells me, and I quote: "f ASCII art forest" > It's a forest because it has trees. Get it? Actually, yes, just as per the definition of "tree" and "forest" in graph theory; cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_%28graph_theory%29 > Great UNIX, just great. Well, strictly speaking, the output of "ps f" is, indeed, not necessarily a tree - unless you're really listing either a single tree or the whole thing right down from "init". But, yeah, I can see how the use of "forest" here might seem either a bit too obscure or a bit too poetic for some tastes :) G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@xxxxxxx.xxx roam@xxxxx.xx roam@xxxxxxx.xxx PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 This sentence no verb. --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFENLaW7Ri2jRYZRVMRAr8KAJwLyV7FT5bKG3tDFc7qQmFYGKFEdwCdEpJR 57oDcowqwEsbsRkFifkoTKU= =rh8D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd--
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