On 2012-03-02 4:52 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Tanstaafl<tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote:
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
Put a backslash before the $, it needs to be escaped in that context.
Aaargh! I could have sworn I tried that... but yes, now it works
perfectly...
Thanks Paul - Gentoo support is the best, even for general linux
questions like this...
