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Old 06-12-2014, 09:59 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby View Post
(the "top" command functions different than I remembered, at least it didn't work for me.)
I guess you remembered correctly. However, this "sort of terminal" cannot handle the output of monitoring processes, since it waits until the process is finished before it shows the output. But since top does not stop by itself, ...
EDIT: Something that works (apart from free and cat /proc/meminfo) is
Code:
top -n 1

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