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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Filter grep output of 'ps aux'
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:31:39
Message-Id: 20120302203002.09ab1167@khamul.example.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Filter grep output of 'ps aux' by Tanstaafl
1 On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:12:04 -0500
2 Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
3
4 > On 2012-03-02 1:02 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
5 > wrote:
6 > > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:46 AM,
7 > > Tanstaafl<tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
8 > >> > Does anyone know if there is a way to filter the output of ps
9 > >> > aux to show only lines that have a value in the %CPU column
10 > >> > higher than x - ie, 1.0, or 2.0, or something like that?
11 > > ps aux | gawk '{ if ( $3> 1.0 ) { print } }'
12 >
13 > Thanks Paul! Thats a huge help...
14 >
15 > Now if I could just get a constantly updated output of this (like
16 > tailing a live log), I'd be in heaven... ;)
17 >
18 > But if this is the best I can do, it is 1000 times better...
19 >
20
21 try "watch"
22
23 --
24 Alan McKinnnon
25 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com