Question

I would like to join and process the two lines coming out of the top command:

shell> top -p 1 -b -d 1 | egrep '^top|^Cpu'
top - 15:17:45 up 736 days,  4:32,  3 users,  load average: 0.06, 0.03, 0.00
Cpu(s):  0.7% us,  0.8% sy,  0.0% ni, 97.1% id,  1.3% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si

When trying to use awk and sed commands, I run into trouble – no output is produced. What commands would I use to get the output to look like this:

Time: 15:17:45 Cpu(s):  0.7% us,  0.8% sy,  0.0% ni, 97.1% id,  1.3% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si

Here is a piece of code that could be useful:

shell> echo 'top - 15:17:45 up 736 days,  4:32,  3 users,  load average: 0.06, 0.03, 0.00' | awk -F' up' '/^top/ {print "Time: " $1}' | sed 's/top - //'
Time: 15:17:45

Answer 1

try this:

command | sed -n "N;s/top - /Time: /;s/up.*\n//;p" 

At first it reads in the seconds line, then it substitutes “top – ” by “Time: “, finally it deletes everything from up unto the first line break.

Output:

Time: 15:17:45 Cpu(s):  0.7% us,  0.8% sy,  0.0% ni, 97.1% id,  1.3% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si

EDIT:

Try this:

top -p 1 -b -d 1 | awk '
    /^top/{a=$0}
    /^Cpu/{
        sub(/top - /,"Time:",a);
        sub(/up.*$/,"",a);
        printf "%s %s\n",a,$0;a=""}'