On 17/02/2008, Phoenix Kiula <phoenix.kiula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > But this is kind of sitting there, hogging the command prompt. Is > there any way I can let it go on in the background? Ouch ... no, that's entirely my fault, wasn't quite awake I guess, and hadn't thought it through completely ... that's not going to give us the desired result... Try this: for z in `seq 1 3600`; do top -b -d 1 -n 1| awk -f top.awk; done | tee topoutput Not sure whether it's going to give us the desire granularity of time... Cheers, Andrej -- Please don't top post, and don't use HTML e-Mail :} Make your quotes concise. http://www.american.edu/econ/notes/htmlmail.htm ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly