Try this for top 15 memory using processes (in % terms), all on one line... ps aux | head -n 1 | cut -c 1-100; ps aux | sort -n -r -k 4 | grep -v COMMAND | head -n 15 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/attachments/20070110/15722c60/attachment-0001.htm>