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TOPLESS(1) General Commands Manual TOPLESS(1) NAME topless - display command output on the whole screen like "top" SYNOPSIS topless [-cwVhv] [-s seconds] [-n number] [-a command] COMMAND DESCRIPTION topless reads various command output, displays it on the whole screen (like less), and periodically updates it like top. topless can be used with almost every sort of command, but is particularly useful when used with the command to monitor the system, such as ps, net- stat or fstat. See EXAMPLES below for details. OPTIONS -c The lines difference from the previous screen update are colorized. (default: false) -s seconds Set the screen update periods to seconds seconds. If the sleep(1) com- mand accepts and honors a non-integer number of seconds, seconds can be a non-integer number. (default: 1) -n number The lines are kept colorized for number times screen update when -c is also enabled. Once a line is colorized, that line becomes blue on next screen update, and remains blue until the line returns to be original color. (default: 1) -a command Topless enforce the specified command when COMMAND output gets differ- ence from the previous output assumed for alert use, instead of -c use for monochrome monitor or others. (default: false) -w Topless will use as many columns as necessary without regard for your window size. (default: true) -V Topless gets information header. (default: false) -h Print help message. -v Print version. KEY COMMAND q quit topless EXAMPLES Display the output of "ps axuww" like top: % topless ps axuww Same as the above, but the lines difference from the previous screen update are colorized. % topless -c ps axuww Set the screen update periods to 0.1 seconds (suppose the sleep(1) command can honor non-integer number of seconds): % topless -s 0.1 ps axuww Once a line is colorized, that line becomes blue on next screen update, and remains blue after the next 10 times update: % topless -c -n 10 netstat -a COMMAND can be a more complex one, such as the one that contains pipe: % topless 'fstat -f /var| sort -k8 -nr' % topless -c 'sockstat | egrep "([0-9]{1,3}[.]){3}[0-9]{1,3}"' Display the outout of "ps axuww" like top with information header like watch(1) of Linux: % topless -V ps axuww Alert when /var/log/messages gets change: % topless -a "tput bl" tail /var/log/messages Alert when /var/log/messages gets change running as deamon mode: # kldload speaker # daemon topless -a "echo AAA > /dev/speaker" tail /var/log/messages > /dev/null AUTHORS Daichi GOTO <daichi@FreeBSD.org> KOMATSU Shinichiro <koma2@lovepeers.org> (documents) PORTABILITY topless can work on various platforms, and has been reported to work on the following platforms: FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, MacOS X, SuSE 9.1, Solaris 10/8 (ksh is required) If you find topless does not work on your platform, feel free to send a patch to the author. Your patch is *always* welcome. ;) CAVEATS Special care must be taken when you search about topless, especially when you are at your office or with your family, because the search results may not be what you expected. SEE ALSO top(1) less(1) topless 2005-12-21 TOPLESS(1)
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