capturing output from top and format output

new2ss · #1 (**permalink**) 02-24-2009

Hi all, I'd like to capture the output from the 'top' command to monitor my CPU and Mem utilisation.Currently my command is

Code:

echo date
`top -b -n1 | grep -e Cpu -e Mem`

I get the output in 3 separate lines.

Code:

Tue Feb 24 15:00:03
Cpu(s): 3.4% us, 8.5% sy .. ..
Mem: 1011480k total, 226928k used, ...

. My desired output is

Code:

Tue Feb 24 15:00:03 3.4% 8.5% ... 1011480k 226928k

I have tried to use awk to process the output from the grep

Code:

tob -b -n1 | grep -e Cpu -e Mem | awk '{print $2 $4

and I only the figures I required, but the output still spans 3 lines

Code:

2.8% 7.0%
1011480k 227896k

How should I modify the awk command to get everything on one line with the date at the front ?

zaxxon · #2 (**permalink**) 02-24-2009

Code:

date| cut -d" " -f1-4; top -b -n1 | awk '/^Cpu/ {print $2,$4,$6,$8} /^Mem/ {print $2,$4}'

new2ss · #3 (**permalink**) 02-24-2009

Hi zaxxon, thank you for your prompt response.

I followed your suggestion and i got the output in 3 lines. Any suggestions to get the 3 lines combined into 1 line?

zaxxon · #4 (**permalink**) 02-24-2009

Code:

A=`date| cut -d" " -f1-4; top -b -n1 | awk '/^Cpu/ {print $2,$4,$6,$8} /^Mem/ {print $2,$4}'`
echo $A
Di 24. Feb 12:27:50 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 1003060k 982620k

new2ss · #5 (**permalink**) 02-24-2009

Hi zaxxon,

thank you for your suggestion.

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