Given that things are inconsistent across distributions, that's basically the same as being inconsistent between Solaris and AIX. One inconsistency I've been v

Given that things are inconsistent across distributions, that's basically the same as being inconsistent between Solaris and AIX. One inconsistency I've been very annoyed by over the years is the differences in ps. I ended up making a .cshrc that contained aliases to work around them. I'd check which OS I was using and alias a command to call ps with the arguments I used regularly. I used to work often on Irix, Solaris, and Linux and it was a pain to remember which arguments I needed. This was especially true on ssh connections where I didn't always remember which OS a particular machine ran.