topic Re: customizing "top" output on hpux11.x in Operating System - HP-UX

customizing "top" output on hpux11.x

Santanu Bhadra — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:33:47 GMT

Hi All:

I hava a quick question for you experts.

From my status monitoring script, I need
to display the top eight processes only,
neither the cpu nor any header information.

I am using "top -d1 -n8 > topfile"
Trying to do "tail -3 topfile" and using
cut or awk does not help me - gives lot of
control characters.

Thanks for your valued help in adavance.

Cheers,
Santanu

Re: customizing "top" output on hpux11.x

Jeff Machols — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:37:50 GMT

try this

top -d1 -n8 -f outfile
tail outfile

Re: customizing "top" output on hpux11.x

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:38:02 GMT

Hi:

Use the undocumented '-f' option to eliminate control characters.

# top -d 1 -f /tmp/top.out

...will collect one screen into /tmp/top.out for example.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: customizing "top" output on hpux11.x

harry d brown jr — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:41:58 GMT

Of course Glance/Measureware with perfview is a better product for gathering system usage.

live free or die
harry

Re: customizing "top" output on hpux11.x

Santanu Bhadra — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:52:49 GMT

Thanks a lot Jeff and JRF - perfect solution.