top command

vicky007aggrwal · 05-07-2014, 05:22 AM

Hi everyone,

I want to run Top command in batch mode every 10 seconds for 10 iterations & at the same time I want to limit the number of process shown in the top command output. I'm unable to locate how to do that ,please suggest

I'm using the below command & this is printing all the process running on the system , I want only 5 processes to be displayed in each iteration.pls help

Quote:

top -b -n 10 -d 10

chrism01 · 05-07-2014, 05:47 AM

Do you have any particular 5 in mind, or will any do?
If the latter, use tail

Code:

top -b -n 1 -d 1|tail -5

vicky007aggrwal · 05-08-2014, 01:49 AM

This will not work as I want to iterate the output 10 times after every 10 seconds , using tail will output once one.

And I want the top 5 processes hence using tail command is not appropriate.

bstaletic · 05-08-2014, 01:52 AM

Try this:

Code:

top -b -n 10 -d 10 | tail -5

kooru · 05-08-2014, 02:06 AM

Code:

for i in {1..10}; do top -b -n 1 | tail +7 | head -6; sleep 10; echo ""; done

Code:

for i in {1..10}; do top -b -n 1 | head -n 12; sleep 10; echo ""; done

tested on slackware