Hi Friends,

Scripting newb here. So I'm trying to create a geektool script that uses awk and printf to output certain fields from top (namely command, cpu%, rsize, pid and time, in that order). After much trial and error, I've pretty much succeeded, with one exception. Any process whose name is more than one word, such as system events or system pre..., gets the first word outputted to command ($2), the second outputted to cpu% ($3), cpu% outputted to time ($4) and so on. I'm pretty sure there's a way to fix this so that both words are outputted to the command column using if, but be as I possess very rudimentary scripting skills, I have no idea how to do this. Here's what I have so far:

top -FR -l2 -ocpu | grep -v ' 0.0% ..:' | awk '{printf( "%-12s %-5s %-5s %-5s %s\n", $2,$3,$10,$1,$4 ) }' | sed -n '15,$p'

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I don't quite follow the dilemma here and I don't have that version of 'top'.
Could you quote the input as it comes to 'awk' (using code tags, please) - no need to attach images.
You can copy/paste the code, select it and click on '#' in the upper bar of the forum message editor.

Also, if you're using 'awk' it's most likely you don't need 'grep'.

Sorry if I was unclear. If I understand you correctly (please forgive me if I haven't), the input is something like this:

Processes:  98 total, 17 running, 3 stuck, 78 sleeping... 442 threads   15:58:34

Load Avg: 12.05, 11.64, 12.16    CPU usage: 73.11% user, 26.89% sys,  0.00% idle
PhysMem:  271M wired, 1048M active,  577M inactive, 1897M used,  151M free.
VM: 61G + 0   146058(0) pageins, 41853(0) pageouts

  PID COMMAND      %CPU   TIME   #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT  RSHRD  RSIZE  VSIZE
66110 GeekTool    11.7%  3:16:32  73   923-     0     0-     0-   55M  1006M 
31858 firefox-bi   5.8% 52:15.57  18   227      0     0-     0-  320M  1273M 
87943 perl         3.7%  0:00.25   1    13      0     0-     0- 5368K   589M 
87902 perl         3.5%  0:00.31   1    14+     0     0-     0- 7104K   590M 
87942 perl         3.0%  0:00.24   1    13      0     0-     0- 5368K   589M 
87941 perl         2.9%  0:00.23   1    13      0     0-     0- 5368K   589M 
   63 coreservic   2.6% 15:55.41   2   243+     0     0-     0-   18M   645M 
66070 WindowServ   2.0% 27:07.05   6   387+     0     0-     0-   84M  1015M 
    0 kernel_tas   1.6% 24:31.65  62     2      0     0-     0   157M  1122M 
   15 distnoted    1.2%  8:31.58   1    66+     0     0-     0-  852K   586M 
66106 Last.fm      0.8%  7:25.17  10   167      0     0-     0-   27M   993M 
87946 top          0.7%  0:00.14   1    32+     0     0-     0- 1016K   586M 
87551 Terminal     0.7%  0:00.42   5   107      0     0-     0- 9532K   927M 
87930 top          0.5%  0:00.19   1    17+     0     0-     0- 1020K   587M 
   11 DirectoryS   0.5%  3:38.61   5    84      0     0-     0- 3380K   589M 
66163 System Eve   0.4%  2:18.47   2    86+     0     0-     0- 6452K   901M

Something along these lines...

top -FR -l2 -ocpu | awk -f thom.awk

thom.awk:

BEGIN {
  tab=sprintf("\t")
  OFS=","
}

function trim(str)
{
    sub("^([ ]*|" tab "*)", "", str);
    sub("([ ]*|" tab "*)" "$", "", str);
    return str;
}

$1 ~ /^[0-9]/ {
  pid=$1
  rest=substr($0,index($0,$2))
  match(rest,"[0-9.]*%")
  name=substr(rest,1, RSTART-1)
  $0=substr(rest,RSTART)
  print trim(name), $1, $8, pid, $2
}