On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:12:04 -0500 Tanstaafl <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2012-03-02 1:02 PM, Paul Hartman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:46 AM, > > Tanstaafl<[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Does anyone know if there is a way to filter the output of ps > >> > aux to show only lines that have a value in the %CPU column > >> > higher than x - ie, 1.0, or 2.0, or something like that? > > ps aux | gawk '{ if ( $3> 1.0 ) { print } }' > > Thanks Paul! Thats a huge help... > > Now if I could just get a constantly updated output of this (like > tailing a live log), I'd be in heaven... ;) > > But if this is the best I can do, it is 1000 times better... > try "watch" -- Alan McKinnnon [email protected]

