Top command...

[Oleg Goudovany_1]

Hi, all!

How write execution top command to file?

Thanx. Oleg

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

Hi,

There is an undocumented option -f that you can write information to disk.

# top -f /tmp/top.out

HTH
-Michael

[Animesh Chakraborty]

Hi,
I am not sure whether I have understood your question or not. Are you looking for this command:
top -s 1 -d 1 >/tmp/top.txt
(s=time,d=count)
then see the file using command pg.
pg /tmp/top.txt.

Good luck
Animesh

[Oleg Goudovany_1]

To Michael:

Whats this option - f.
Where I can read about?

Thanx. Oleg

[Michael Tully]

Hi Oleg,

As I mentioned it is undocumented, I don't know why. This was something that I picked up a while ago and has been mentioned a number of times in the threads that have been placed here before.

Good Luck (dusfordunya)
Michael

[Satish Y]

Hi Oleg,

What Michael told is correct, it is undocumented one. U can follow Animesh's advice too but output will be bit confusing.

Cheers...
Satish.

[Oleg Goudovany_1]

Some OT to Michael Tully:
Excuse me Michael, may be let me correct You:
(in russian by latin letters)
Good Luck = udatchi
Good bye=do svidaniya ~ dusfordunya
Bye-bye=poka-poka.
Perhaps It is useful to you -in Australia a lot of russians.

Oleg.

[Edward Alfert_2]

Yes, the -f is undocumented in the man pages but it isn't if you use top --help

try the following:
#man top
not there

#top -?
IT"S THERE!!! .. by the way, the -? is an illegal option but i use it to force top to display the VALID options.

just a little bit of trivial knowledge for those that might want to know...

enjoy

[Michael Tully]

Hi Oleg,

I meant to say Good Luck and good bye.....

I should know something about being Russian, my wife is...

poka poka...
-Michael