The cut says to cut from character 1 to end of line which is why it looks the same with watch it would start to cause to line wrap issue's and this forces each line to end correctly
this may have been an issue when running from a console instead of a telnet or ssh session, not sure about that one William D Carroll Mainframe Engineering, Build Office: (614) 677-3885 Cell: (614) 266-5402 Email: [email protected] From: Scott Rohling <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 07/21/2011 01:24 PM Subject: Re: Poor man's top Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> Just ensure 80 amount of characters are displayed on each line .. you can certainly leave it out -- it's been too long for me to remember why that was stuck in :( I'm not sure now what the rationale was.. Scott Rohling On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] < [email protected]> wrote: > Can somebody explain to me what the 'cut' step is suppose to do? I left it > out and the results appear to be the same. > > Bobby Bauer > Center for Information Technology > National Institutes of Health > Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 > 301-594-7474 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard J Moore [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 12:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Poor man's top > > very good. nice suggestion. but I needed to do: > > watch -n 10 -d 'ps aux --sort -%cpu | cut -c1- | head -20' > > Richard > > > > > From: Scott Rohling <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 21/07/2011 17:43 > Subject: Poor man's top > Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> > > > > I found this buried in some notes.. thought others might enjoy it. Much > less overhead then top.. : > > watch -n 10 -d 'ps aux --sort -%cpu | cut -c1-0 | head -20' > > Scott Rohling > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
