Okay, So I've been attempting this for about three hours now without success.
How do you search/display/use the top
command (or ps
command if it works…) to output a list of all procs, sorted by CPU time Excluding procs owned by 'root'.
My attempts so far:
top -b -S -n 1 | grep -v root
top -b -S -n 1 | egrep -ve root
ps -eo pid,user,args,etime,time,%cpu --sort etime | egrep -v root
That and various attempts at running top in batch mode, outputting to a file and attempting to awk/grep/sort
through it and sort it properly by the amount of CPU time (mostly unable to find the right column / manage to sort the right column in any seemingly useful way).
Forgive me if that seems a bit of a muddle; tl;dr:
I just want some way to easily read top without root procs and sorted by CPU time.
Best Answer
Your
ps
command should work if you sort it properly. Fromman ps
:I'm not sure which time you want to sort by but here are the relevant choices:
I think from your question that you want
cputime
. If so, this should give you your desired output: