Top Command help

malickhat · 10-12-2011, 04:37 PM

Hi All,
I just wanna to list the top 5 process in my "top command" i couldn't find any switch to do that ,and i don't want to use any additional command ,so any possible way in TOP command,please pass it to me

Tinkster · 10-12-2011, 04:49 PM

Oops ... you can :}

Press 'n', and then the number of processes.

colucix · 10-12-2011, 04:50 PM

In interactive mode press n then 5.

malickhat · 10-12-2011, 04:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colucix

In interactive mode press n then 5.

Thanks , it helps but still i'm in interactive mode ,i want something like to display what's the first 5 process in my machine using top,again i need to get back to my prompt

colucix · 10-12-2011, 05:02 PM

As previously noted by Tinkster above, there is no option to do that. You need to run top in batch mode using -b -n1 and parse the output with additional commands.

syg00 · 10-12-2011, 05:51 PM

Note the warning under "BUGS".
If I want that sort of thing (with no header) I prefer "ps" piped to something like head.