Using Top to show output of your Script

Question

In my previous company, there was an engineer who showed me a demo of using top and it was displaying the output of her script. Unfortunately, I do not have any contacts with her anymore. But I find it really amazing that top can display the output. It is like doing a tail -f on a log file.

Does anyone know how to do this?

please clarify what you are looking for – Foo Bah Feb 07 '11 at 15:51 — Foo Bah, Feb 07 '11 at 15:51

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 04 '11 at 01:58

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Top has a -b mode which prints out information in a format that looks like tail -f. is that what you were looking for?

answered Feb 04 '11 at 01:58

Foo Bah

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Cool, never seen `-b` before :) – sarnold Feb 04 '11 at 02:17
Sometimes i need to log the output of top – Foo Bah Feb 04 '11 at 02:19

Using Top to show output of your Script

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