Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I was going through the help page of ps command (using ps –h) and I noticed the two options have the same description.
-e all processes
-A all processes
I ran the commands with both the options and I noticed no difference.
Is there any difference between the two options? If not why to provide two options that does the same?
man ps said:
As mentioned above, this may be done for compatibility with older scripts for different UNIX systems, it happens.
(archlinux distro).