Emulating top for GeekTool

There are lots of stupid solutions for GeekTool's inability to use top (or other keep-running tools).

Here's my easy solution:

ps -axcr -o pid,%cpu,command,rsz,state | head -n 15 | awk '$5!=ps'

Explained:

• Use ps to generate a list of running processes, for all users, and sort them by CPU usage.
• Only print the given columns.
• Take the top 15.
• Remove any entries for ps itself.

You don't need to run top multiple times, start a Python interpreter, or any other silliness.

Posted at 2007-04-03 19:29:47 by Richard • Link to Emulating top for …