Re: Something Odd - "top" Delivers Nada When Run By Crontab

c186282 <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/14/26 21:54, rbowman wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:38:03 -0400, c186282 wrote:
>> 
>>>     These forums exist because there are enough people, each with their
>>>     particular areas of expertise and experience, that can chime in. The
>>>     "-b" info was "good enough", but *explained* made that even better.
>> 
>> man top
>> 
>> -b, --batch
>> Starts top in Batch mode, which could be useful for sending output from
>> top  to other  programs or to a file.  In this mode, top will not accept
>> input and runs until the iterations limit you've set with  the  `-n'
>> command-line  option  or until killed.
> 
>   Missed that.
> 
>   Frankly I don't use 'man' very often. The
>   explainations tend to be obscure and NEVER
>   seem to include actual EXAMPLE lines.

You know, you could contribute some edits back to the projects you use 
to add those missing example lines.