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Check CPU Usage with Top on Ubuntu VPS

Category: Bash

Use top—a system monitor—in a Bash script on an Ubuntu VPS—run:

top -b -n1 | grep \"Cpu(s)\"

to log usage On Linode script it:

#!/bin/bash\ntop -b -n1 > cpu.log

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