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Re: why has ps changed it option syntax,or "where oh where has my - gone"



>>>>> "Shaleh" == Shaleh  <shaleh@livenet.net> writes:

    Shaleh> Why is ps -ax considered "deprecated".  Using a hyphen in
    Shaleh> a command is accepted and standard practice.  Last I
    Shaleh> checked it is also POSIX as well as w/o.  tar -zxvf and
    Shaleh> tar zxvf are the same and should be ok.  Why is ps
    Shaleh> different?

Read the man page for ps. It explains this in detail.

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