in reply to Running a Background Job

Hm, have you tried: 
`top -b -n 1`

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Re^2: Running a Background Job
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 21, 2007 at 00:12 UTC
    I managed to get top to work using the b argument. It's certainly not a Perl issue but it was quite baffling getting it to work properly. Thank you all for leading me in the right direction.
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