Thanks for the hint Bill, that has put the output file into some sort of readable format now.
Do you know what the following corresponds to, so i can get rid of it as well:
^[[B
thanks
Kareem
-----Original Message-----
From: $Bill Luebkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 2 October 2003 12:15 PM
To: Kareem Galal
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Perl-unix-users] Reading Unix's top command
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
You could just convert the ^M (\r) to newlines and then you can remove
the escape sequences if needed or just work around them.
tr/\r/\n/;
or
s/\r/\n/gs;
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