On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Tanstaafl <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012-03-02 3:50 PM, Paul Hartman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Tanstaafl<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 2012-03-02 2:33 PM, Paul Hartman<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> And you can use the --sort options for ps to sort by cpu or anything >>>> you like (see the manpage) >>> >>> >>> >>> Even better, thanks Paul... >>> >>> watch -n1 "ps aux --sort=-%cpu | gawk '{ if ( \$3> 1.0 ) { print } }'" >>> >>> does exactly what I want... >>> >>> Hmmm... is there an easy way to include the column headers? >> >> >> To build on Grant's suggestion: >> ps aux --sort %cpu | gawk 'NR==1; $3> 0' > > > Hmmm.. ok, this works beautifully, thanks! > > But when I tried to incorporate it into the watch command like the other > one: > > Original: > > watch -n1 "ps aux --sort=-%cpu | gawk '{ if ( \$3 > 1.0 ) { print } }'" > > Attempt at incorporating your command into this: > watch -n1 "ps aux --sort=-%cpu | gawk 'NR==1; $3 > 0'" > > it gives me a syntax error: > > Every 1.0s: ps aux --sort=-%cpu | gawk 'NR==1; > 0' > Fri Mar 2 > 16:19:01 2012 > > gawk: NR==1; > 0 > gawk: ^ syntax error > > Any ideas on how to get this working in the watch version > > Thanks Paul, this will be very useful to me... >
Put a backslash before the $, it needs to be escaped in that context.
