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Saving awk output to file

Hello,

I have a problem with saving output from awk to a file. The commands I tried:

Code:

$ top | awk '/Cpu|Mem/ {if ($1 ~ /Cpu/) {printf strftime("%H:%M:%S")"\t"; printf strtonum($3)"\t";} if ($1 ~ /Mem/) {printf ($5/$3)*100; printf "\n";}}' > file.out

and

Code:

$ top | awk '/Cpu|Mem/ {if ($1 ~ /Cpu/) {printf strftime("%H:%M:%S")"\t"; printf strtonum($3)"\t";} if ($1 ~ /Mem/) {printf ($5/$3)*100; printf "\n";}}' &> file.out

In both cases file.out is empty. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

Evgeniy

Programs that update the console display usually won't work with redirects.

Use the -b (batch mode) flag for top. Have a look at the man page.

Cheers,

Evo2.