Question: Reading the Output of Top

[Jude DaShiell]

It may also help to run top with screen as perhaps a first command then 
open up additional screens to perform other work and have the first 
screen with top running on it backgrounded while this is going on.

On Fri, 6 May 2016, Tony Baechler wrote:

> Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 06:06:46
> From: Tony Baechler <tony at baechler.net>
> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>     <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> Subject: Re: Question: Reading the Output of Top
> 
> On 5/5/2016 11:59 PM, Parham Doustdar wrote:
>> 1. There is no way of knowing the title of a column without first
>>    navigating to the headers. I want to be able to go to the
>>    next/previous column, know the title of a column, etc.
>
> I'm sure others have good answers, but I haven't found a good solution. You 
> can park the Speakup cursor and you can change the frequency output is 
> updated, like every 20 seconds. You can use the review keys to read the 
> column headers. I think there is a way to get more verbose output without 
> the columns, but you'd have to read the man page.
>
>> 2. The output keeps changing. For example, while I???m reading one line,
>>    its CPU usage might drop and cause it to be reordered in the list.
>
>
> Try this very helpful command:
>
> top -n1 | head
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