Running top in batch mode

[Giovanni P. Tirloni]

On Sep 23, 2009, at 12:05 AM, <nitin.gizare at wipro.com> <nitin.gizare at wipro.com 
 > wrote:

> HI
>
> Thanks for reply,
>
> I want to capture initial header part in which we have info  
> process , total memory usages etc …
> Then process and memory usage usage of process , it can be only  
> first 100 process.
>
>
> I tried running top –b –n 1 command but which does not show initial  
> header information.
>
> Please help me in this regards.



What exactly are you getting with that command that is different from  
what you want ?

$ top -b -n1 | head -n5
top - 07:43:10 up 12:49,  1 user,  load average: 0.30, 0.10, 0.03
Tasks:  89 total,   1 running,  88 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 99.8%id,  0.1%wa,  0.0%hi,   
0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   2064872k total,   472040k used,  1592832k free,    68092k buffers
Swap:  2096472k total,        0k used,  2096472k free,   336832k cached



Giovanni P. Tirloni
tirloni at gmail.com




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