http://dewitte.vox.com/library/posts/tags/pdp-11/page/1/ 48 69 74 20 79 6f 75 72 20 22 41 22 20 73 6f 20 74 68 65 20 72 65 73 74 20 6f 66 20 75 73 20 63 61 6e 20 70 6c 61 79 21 21 en Vox Sat, 10 May 2008 12:00:40 -0400 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss pdp-11 http://dewitte.vox.com/library/post/ps--aux-grep-dewitte-more.html?_c=feed-rss-full nobody@vox.com(dewitte) http://dewitte.vox.com/library/post/ps--aux-grep-dewitte-more.html?_c=feed-rss-full http://dewitte.vox.com/library/post/ps--aux-grep-dewitte-more.html?_c=feed-rss-full Sat, 10 May 2008 12:00:40 -0400 <p>Status:<br /> <div at:enclosure="asset" at:xid="6a00c2251e13128e1d00d4141645ed685e" at:format="small" at:align="left" class="enclosure enclosure-left enclosure-small photo-enclosure" style="text-align: center; float: left;"> <div class="enclosure-inner" style="padding: 9px; border: 1px solid; width: px; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" > <div class="enclosure-list"> <div class="enclosure-item photo-asset last"> <div class="enclosure-image"> <a href="http://dewitte.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c2251e13128e1d00d4141645ed685e.html"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00c2251e13128e1d00d4141645ed685e-120pi" alt="SURPRISED" title="SURPRISED" /></a> </div> <div class="enclosure-meta"> <div class="enclosure-asset-name"><a href="http://dewitte.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c2251e13128e1d00d4141645ed685e.html" title="SURPRISED">SURPRISED</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div><!-- end enclosure --> I woke up thinking about this string of old Unix commands today.&#160; </p><p>I think the last time I really used it was on a PDP-11 in 1983.</p><p>It looks right - might be off slightly, but basically the ps displays all the currently running Unix processes then you pipe (send) it over to the grep command to look up &quot;dewitte&quot; then you pipe that over to more so it paginates the output.</p><p>Ah, good times - good times.&#160; Who needs windows when you have a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11">PDP-11</a>?<br /> <div><br /></div></p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://dewitte.vox.com/library/post/ps--aux-grep-dewitte-more.html?_c=feed-rss-full#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251e13128e1d00e398f844fc0004?_c=feed-rss-full">Send to a friend</a> </p> unix ps grep pdp-11