HP-UX

Hello everyone.
I am trying to set up a monitor based on a "top" command statistic as follows:
top -bc -n1 > output.txt

I've put this command into a small script which is called by a cron... but there is something strange happening: the cron is limiting the output to output.txt to 80 characters.
If I call this script from a standart command line, evenrything is fine, no wrapping is occuring.
I'm using a HP-UX shell.
I red somewhere on internet that it could be a case of wrong editor - but that's not my case.

Could please advice?
Thank you.

Martin

For a start

Code:

ra:/home/vbe $ top -bc -n1 > output.txt 
top: illegal option -- b
Usage:  top [-u] [-q] [-dx] [-sx] [-n number] [-f filename]
ra:/home/vbe $ uname -r
B.11.00

...
What do you call an HP-UX shell?

Did you look at the man pages of top?
(there is a great option: -f filename... etc...)

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Code:

ran:/home/vbe $  top -bc -n1 > output.txt
top: illegal option -- b
Usage:  top [-u] [-q] [-P] [-dx] [-sx] [-p pset_id] [-n number] [-f filename]
ran:/home/vbe $ uname -r
B.11.11

Please specify which version of OS you are using for it does help us looking at your issue ( in the present case I have no 11.23 or above to chek at the moment...) the code you gave does not work on 11.00 or 11.11...

To endorse "vbe" the command options stated aren't valid with the "normal" version of "top" on HP-UX 11.11. The "-n" switch for example is for items per page not iterations.

Hello guys, sorry, wrong post The machine is a Linux.
I hope I can find a solution on my own on internet.
Thank you...

---------- Post updated at 11:18 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:22 AM ----------

Hi, just to inform you: the solution was adding EXPORT COLUMNS=250 to the script.
I found the solution under another HP-UX formu, so I don't think it was a case of environment, rather something else.
Have a nice day!
Martin