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Curious
Curious

Reputation: 825

How to extract CPU load of cores from htop command?

I have found that htop command was the only way to display nicely each CPU core's load. I need an average of each CPU core from the last few seconds. However, I do not know how to extract those numbers in a command line. For example, using grep or -n 1. I am running Ångström where I am not allowed to install any more extra packages.

I would like my end result to be: 

CPU0: X%
CPU1: X%

I would appreciate any help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4301

Answers (1)

JNevill
JNevill

Reputation: 50248

Instead of htop which is more of a gui, go straight to /proc/stat and grab what you need.

Using awk:

awk '$1~/cpu[0-9]/{usage=($2+$4)*100/($2+$4+$5); print $1": "usage"%"}' /proc/stat

Upvotes: 1

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