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How To Capture Unix Top Command Output to a File in Readable Format

by Ramesh Natarajan on October 23, 2009

Question: I’m trying to capture the output of the top command into a file. When I execute top > output.txt, the output.txt file contains lot of junk characters. What is the best method to capture the output of the top command into a readable text file?

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