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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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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

br

br(1)							      General Commands Manual							     br(1)

NAME

       br - utility to interact with Firecracker device

SYNOPSIS

       br [options] [housecode[list]] [native command] ...

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents  briefly  the  br command.  br is a program that interacts with X10's Firecracker device allowing the user to
       manipulate X10 devices throughout their house/office.

OPTIONS

       The programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').  A summary of options are included
       below.

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options.

       -v, --verbose
	      Each -v will increase the verbosity.

       -x, --port=PORT
	      Set port to communicate with (should be the port the Firecracker module is plugged into)

       -c, --house=[A-P]
	      Use alternate house code for operations, default is A

       -n, --on=LIST
	      Turn on all devices in LIST

       -f, --off=LIST
	      Turn off all devices in LIST

       -N, --ON
	      Turn on all devices in housecode

       -F, --OFF
	      Turn off all devices in housecode

       -d, --dim=LEVEL[,LIST]
	      Dim devices in housecode [or LIST] to relative LEVEL

       -B, --lamps_on
	      Turn on all lamps in housecode

       -D, --lamps_off
	      Turn off all lamps in housecode

       -r, --repeat=NUM
	      Repeat commands NUM times (0 = ~forever)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Ashley Clark <aclark@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

								   Ashley Clark 							     br(1)
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