I have this tweak I'd like to make to the top command (Linux only is fine). Most of the time I want to see just one user or all users. Every now and again though, I'd like to see all users except another. Top doesn't support this functionality, but I thought something like "-u -root" would be a handy extension. Another would be to watch multiple users, e.g. -u skip,bob. I thought I could fire up a top command showing all users in a pseudo tty with a fake huge number of lines, then elide the rows matching unwanted users. However... I have a feeling I might be fairly seriously challenged trying to work with top's raw output, as it probably does something more sophisticated than clear the screen and spit out rows. Will I be in over my head trying to tweak the output? Hmmm... maybe if I tell top TERM=dumb?
Anyway, before I get in over my head on the input side, I thought I would check to see if I'm likely to hit a brick wall on the output side... Thx, Skip
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