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Old 08-04-2008
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Originally Posted by johnl View Post
Hi all,

I am using top command in my script to redirect output to temp file. I used kill -9 `ps -ef|grep top|grep -v grep|awk '{print $2}'` to kill top command in my script, but it is not working? Can you please tell how to kill top command in my script?
Use the -f option to top...it outputs one display to the named file and exits automatically.

Code:
top -f /path/to/outfile