Dear *,

I wrote a small script as below shown
but output result in file is all ruinned contained strange symbols like

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9;49m^[[m^[(B 99.7% ^[[m^[(B^[[39;49mid,^[[m^[(B^[[39;49m^[[m^[(B 0.0% ^[[m^[(B^[[39;49mwa,^[[m^[(B^[[39;49m^[[m^[(B 0.0% ^[[m^[(B^[[39;49mhi,^[[m^[(B^[[39;49m^[[m^[(B 0.0% ^[[m^[(B

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My script looks like this


#!/bin/bash
COUNTER=0
while [ $COUNTER -lt 10 ];do
date +%c >>/tmp/topresult

sleep 5s

top >> /tmp/topresult

done


Any hints for this problem?
How to I get rid of those strange symbols for outputing result to file?

Use
top -b
instead (these strange characters you see are control characters that cause the new output to override the old output on the screen).