Re: Easy-to-remember flags

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From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: Re: Easy-to-remember flags
Date: 12:49 on 06 Apr 2006
>> 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

I have more problems here with the "ASCII art" term.

>> 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 :)

Strictly speaking, "ps f" -> foliage is not a UNIX thing, it's a demon
spawn of Unix, err, a Linux thing.  In traditional and/or standard
UNIXes "f" is for "full" listing.

> G'luck,
> Peter
> 

There's stuff above here

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