-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 1/19/2008 8:31 PM: | While aliasing does work for interactive and shell scripts, it does | not work for Perl backtick expressions.
Why not just do: echo exec procps "$@" > /usr/local/bin/ps Then, as long as /usr/local/bin is on the PATH before /usr/bin (which is the default), then any program (including perl) that exec's 'ps' will use procps rather than cygwin ps. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHksWV84KuGfSFAYARAhaRAJ0YUuLil/30GSy9gVB2z5YRS3PZVACfek8v xATMzA2SuWhFtQ+jF6r3GdM= =JKYw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/