On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 9:29 AM Jeff Mangan <j...@magentatech.com> wrote:
> I am trying to get the results of top (more specifically htop) but every > time it prints nothing, whereas any other command (ls, pwd, etc...) returns > the output fine. My objective is to get access to the process stats that > are returned to the screen. > Note that htop is screen oriented, not line oriented. That is, it uses terminal escape sequences to move the cursor and change the color of the text. Run echo q | htop > x Then look at the content of file "x". You won't see lines of text like you would from the output of a command like ls. You could use Go package github.com/creack/pty to communicate with htop via a pseudo-tty and "screen scrape" its output. But that would be a really painful way to get information about running processes. It's hard to provide useful advice because it appears you've made the "XY Problem <https://xyproblem.info/>" mistake. Depending on what information you really want and the platform you're running on the answer may be as simple as running "ps waux" and capturing the %CPU column. -- Kurtis Rader Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CABx2%3DD9POoqxgftj505parnpqm2o6EVRGQm-TZ7iJYmN%2BJ_%3Dwg%40mail.gmail.com.
