Hello,
I am trying to redirect the CPU Usage and Memory Usage of a process into a file. To do this I am using top command with awk:
top -S -d 1 | awk '/'"gnome-terminal"'/ {print $10,":",$11,";" > "/tmp/test.log";}'
The generated log file contains many junk data along with the following wrong data:

%CPU : %MEM ;
2 : 0.0 ;
2 : 2.1 ;
0.0 : 0:00.02 ;
0.9 : 0:37.80 ;
0 : 0.0 ;
0 : 0.0 ;
0 : 0.0 ;
0 : 0.0 ;
0 : 0.0 ;
0 : 0.0 ;
0 : 0.0 ;
0 : 0.0 ;
0 : 0.0 ;
0 : 0.0 ;
0 : 0.0 ;

But when I am executing the following command:
top -S -d 1 | awk '/'"gnome-terminal"'/ {print $10,":",$11,";";}'
It is giving correct output:
1 : 0.4 ;
1 : 0.4 ;
1 : 0.4 ;
1 : 0.4 ;
1 : 0.4 ;
1 : 0.4 ;
1 : 0.4 ;
3 : 0.4 ;
2 : 0.4 ;
2 : 0.4 ;

Is there any way to fix this problem?

Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Deb

maybe try putting your redirection to file after the closing awk curly brace, e.g.:

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