Regarding top command

Krishnaprasad k.krishna at hcl.in
Fri Jun 2 09:20:29 UTC 2006


thanks for ur input michael

Michael Velez wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
>>[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Krishnaprasad
>>Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 2:02 AM
>>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>>Subject: Regarding top command
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>>Hi all
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>>       Is there any way to run top command as a background process?
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>>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.
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>>Is there any other way for this ..
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>>thanks for ur time..
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>>rgds
>>krishnaprasad
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>I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do.
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>As far as I know, fg will not work in a script (I could be wrong, though).
>But if all you want is to start top, then do other commands while top is
>running in the background, then wait for top to end, there may be a way.
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>I couldn't get 'top' to work in the background in a script because it was
>failing on a tty get so I redirected standard input. The below worked for
>me.
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>Is this what you want?
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>----- START OF SCRIPT
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>#!/bin/bash
>top -n5 < /dev/console &
>PID=`jobs -p`
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>wait $PID
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>----- END OF SCRIPT
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>Hope this helps,
>Michael
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Rgds

KRISHNAPRASAD.K
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