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
– Foo Bah

2011-02-07 15:51:16 +00:00
Commented Feb 7, 2011 at 15:51 — Foo Bah
– Foo Bah, Commented Feb 7, 2011 at 15:51

Foo Bah · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-04 01:58:32Z

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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 4, 2011 at 1:58

Foo Bah

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sarnold Over a year ago

Cool, never seen -b before :)

Foo Bah Over a year ago

Sometimes i need to log the output of top

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