sort "top" output and then save to file

Genti Hila genti.rh at gmail.com
Mon Apr 28 20:20:44 UTC 2008


I thought about it but since I am more familiar with top thought maybe top
would do such a job as well.



On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Paul Copeland <PCopeland at ascentmedia.com>
wrote:

> Use ps command.  Get the columns and sort you want and redirect the
> output - Assumming you want a snapshot.
>
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> I am trying to save all the processes into a file by using top command:
>
> top -cSb n 1 > proc.txt
>
> It works fine but I want to sort it descending by the amount of memory
> each proccess takes (descending).
>
> I know how to do that interactively but how can i do when I run it as a
> batch and save the output to a file.
>
> I need to see some program that I think has some memory leaking problem.
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