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If this application has a keyboard stop command, you could try typeahead:
The "cat -v" command demonstrates that the output from "top" contains all sorts of screen control characters.
(sleep 1;echo...

May be you need this?


top -n 1 > top.out


--ahamed

Yes. Also "kill %1" is a syntax error.
Please post your Operating System and version and if it didn't come with "top", where you got "top" from.
There are many and various versions of "top" but...

top and other interactive commands like it are prone to create outputs full of escape sequences that are difficult to view without a terminal, no matter how they're captured.

top itself can do...

# ./justdoit_sp infile
2|01|2059140001|34232883774|504106542|2733|2127292||55197897292|||||177011612201|87829918247|2011112
...

$ split -b 100 infile ; cat xa*

Then remove the temporarily created files ..

Try this...

awk -F'|' '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){s+=length($i)+1;if(s<=100){printf $i OFS}else{print $i OFS;s=0}}printf"\n"}'
OFS='|' input_file


--ahamed