Hi,
In order to get an email advising me that a process is using too much %cpu, i wanted to be able to redirect the output of the Unix top command into a text file, then use regular expressions to get the data i need.
However, redirecting top's output into a file, ends up being one long line with a lot of control-M characters and other funny characters like these:
1 running^M^[[BCpu states:^M^[[BCPU
Is there a way to parse the file, as you would go through a normal text file.
Thanks
Kareem Galal
Unix Systems Administrator
Financial Network Services.
+61 2 9310 9895
