On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:22:33 +0100 Duncan Lithgow <duncan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > thanks guys, how can i get some save-able output from top? I can't cut > and paste from the output... Cheap and inelegant way:. 1) Run top in an xterm 2) break with control-c 3) copy and paste the output that remains on the screen. Here's a sample, just to make sure it works. :) top - 09:17:05 up 3 days, 19:25, 3 users, load average: 0.04, 0.13, 0.11 Tasks: 64 total, 2 running, 62 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 6.4% us, 1.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 90.7% id, 0.6% wa, 1.3% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 645300k total, 579812k used, 65488k free, 125288k buffers Swap: 1307872k total, 0k used, 1307872k free, 291660k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 19534 tomalek 16 0 3312 840 1676 R 3.9 0.1 0:00.02 top [...] and so on -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- * Charles Taylor <tomalek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Chemistry instructor / Mad scientist / Linux enthusiast! -------------------------------------------------------------------- * Web: http://home.mindspring.com/~charletiv/ --------------------------------------------------------------------