Playing with the behavior of ps -elf
and ps aux
, I notice that ps aux
tends to list more processes.
Reading the man page, I suspect the reason why ps aux
would have more entries is that x
in aux
will also grab processes that aren't attached to any terminal.
Is there a way to provide command line flags to ps
to also include those non attached processes? I notice that there is one to specify a tty
or terminal but can't seem to find a flag that would also grab the unattached processes.
I have also tried the following but they seem to be invalid syntax:
ps -elfx
and ps -elf x
.
For reference, I am running this on Mac OSX and believe there maybe inconsistencies with the linux counterpart.