On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:35:55 -0300 Hisham wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Jeff Kowalczyk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Thanks for producing htop, I think it's a terrific tool.
> 
> Thank you for the kind words. :)
> 
> > Is there a way to dump current htop output to a file? There's often
> > very useful information displayed (that I don't get with regular
> > top), which I'd like to paste into trouble reports, forum posts,
> > etc.
> 
> No, not currently. The best you can do is select the text from the
> screen and paste through the X11 clipboard. Being an ncurses app, you
> need to hold Shift while selecting.

One addition to this.  If the information shown goes beyond the width
of the screen you can reduce the font size (in a gnome-terminal for
example with "Ctrl -") to make everything available for selection.


> 
> > A hotkey for this operation would be very useful. A pair of command
> > line options --output-file and --snapshot-delay, and command line
> > options to preselect interactive sorting operations would make htop
> > very useful in cron jobs or other monitoring tools, as well.
> 
> Right now htop is focused on interactive operation. If you need
> redirectable/parseable information on processes, you can probably get
> all the information htop gives through the gazillion options of ps. :)
> 
> Cheers,
> -- Hisham
> 
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