http://www.forum.askdba.org/ Forum for Oracle DBA's en Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:40:08 +0000 http://www.forum.askdba.org/topic/linuxcapturing-top-output-in-text-file#post-126 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:51:49 +0000 Amit Bansal 126@http://www.forum.askdba.org/ <p>Came across this link for capturing Top output in text file</p> <p><a href="http://magazine.redhat.com/2008/04/16/tips-and-tricks-how-do-i-capture-the-output-of-top-to-a-file/" rel="nofollow">http://magazine.redhat.com/2008/04/16/tips-and-tricks-how-do-i-capture-the-output-of-top-to-a-file/</a></p> <p>I found following command to be very useful.<br /> top -b -n5 -d5</p> <p>It captures top output 5 times and wait 5 seconds between each output. </p>