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Originally Posted by ctsgnb

As Dahu stated : the trick is to use the b option of the top command, then, either cut or awk behaves as expected.

Just beware that top, even with the b option, use a right formatted output for the pid ... that's why the awk command may fail of the pid is below 10000 (and I suggested the cut way, I'm no friend with awk

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