[Gllug] Getting top to output ascii and exit?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 08:19:02PM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> How can I get top to output one page and exit?  I'm building a simple 
> system monitoring web page and want it to give me whatever's hogging the 
> system.
> 
> This works from a shell:
> TERM=tt top -n 1
> 
> But not inside my shell script.  Any thoughts?

I thing you probably need to specify that it run it batch mode
with 'b' command lin arg, eg

    top n 1 b

Regards,
Dan.
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