Can you please assit me with capturing the output from the top command using Perl's version of Expect? The code runs on the box that needs to have the output from the top command captured. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use Expect;
 
$Expect::Log_Stdout=0;
  
my $exp = Expect->spawn();
 
$exp->log_file("/ossd/tc1364/top.log");
 
$exp->send("/usr/local/bin/top\r");
 
$exp->expect(10,'CPU states') or exit(1);
 
sleep(1);
 
$exp->soft_close();
 
exit(0);

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