Regarding top command

[Michael Johnson]

On Jun 2, 2006, at 2:02 AM, Krishnaprasad wrote:

> Hi all
>            Is there any way to run top command as a background  
> process?
>
> I have tried "top -n1 &" and then "fg %1". it works fine from the  
> terminal but from a script i am not able to call fg command.
>
> Is there any other way for this ..

I'm not sure what you're trying to do, but this sort of does what  
you're asking:

screen top

ctrl-a ctrl-d

Then to get it back, you can do:

screen -x

Hopefully this gets you what you need.  I don't have my RedHat box  
handy, but it worked on an Ubuntu laptop.

-Michael

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