On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > If you just want 'top' to run and output nicely to another program (or > leave you a nice output and then a prompt) try 'top -bn1'. > > Perhaps not exactly what you want, but worth knowing about. Great tip. The -b option is a good trick to remember. That only lets me see one iteration, though, and this seems to let me see many (a new one every time I hit space): top | less -rf ; reset -I It's not exactly a graceful solution but it hasn't failed, yet. Combining your idea with mine, this may give us the best of both worlds: top -b | less -f +/^top Top provides a new iteration every three seconds or so and I just hit /[Enter] to see the next iteration. If I hit /[Enter] before the next iteration is available, it shows it when it becomes available, so I can hit it a bunch of times in advance and then watch it update in real time. I think I need a new bash alias. ;-) Thanks again, Carl. Mike