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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Top utility in bash for loop Post 302738783 by Yoda on Sunday 2nd of December 2012 07:39:17 PM
Old 12-02-2012
You can do the following to achieve this:-
  • Run top command
top
  • Press O and then p to select sort by SWAP usage.
  • Press W to save this settings it to .toprc file
  • Now you can put below command in loop to get the list of processes sorted by SWAP usage:-
top -n 1

I hope this helps.
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RESCAN-SCSI-BUS.SH(8)					      System Manager's Manual					     RESCAN-SCSI-BUS.SH(8)

NAME
rescan-scsi-bus.sh - rescan the SCSI bus. SYNOPSIS
rescan-scsi-bus.sh [ -l ] [ -w ] [ -c ] [ -r ] [ host... ] DESCRIPTION
rescan-scsi-bus.sh is a program that is used to rescan the SCSI bus using the SCSI add-single-device feature of the Linux SCSI layer. OPTIONS
-l Activates scanning for LUNs 0 .. 7 (default: 0). -L NUM Activates scanning for LUNs 0 .. LUN (default: 0). --luns=LIST Scan only LUNs in LIST. -w Enables scanning for device IDs 0 .. 15 (default: 0 .. 7). --ids=LIST Scan only device IDs in LIST. -i, --issue-lip Issue a FibreChannel LIP reset (default: disabled). -r, --remove Enables removing of devices (default: disabled). --forceremove Remove and readd every device (dangerous). -c Enables scanning of channels 0 1 (default: 0). --channels=LIST Scan only channels in LIST. host, --hosts=LIST If host adapters are given, only these are scanned (default: all). --nooptscan Don't stop looking for LUNs if 0 is not found. --color Use coloured prefixes OLD/NEW/DEL. LIST is a comma separated list of single values and ranges (no spaces allowed), e.g. 0,2-3,8,10-15. AUTHOR
rescan-scsi-bus.sh was written by Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>. COPYRIGHT
This program is free software. You can use it under the terms of the GNU GPL (General Public License) Version 2 (or any later version, at your option). Note, that the GNU GPL implies, that there is NO WARRANTY at all. Full text of the GPL can be found in /usr/share/common- licenses/GPL file. AVAILABILITY
rescan-scsi-bus.sh is available from http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/scsidev/ March 1998 RESCAN-SCSI-BUS.SH(8)
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