A simple version of Top or How to monitor data in a Monad session

A simple version of Top or How to monitor data in a Monad session: In the cmdline, sometimes its handy to have a console open in the background just for monitoring some data. For example, in my Unix admin days, I used to use top to monitor what was going on in the system. In Monad/PowerShell, I use this little hack: param( [scriptblock]$command=$(throw "A script block is required..."), $timer=5 ) while ($true){ clear-host &$command | format-table start-sleep $timer > $null } You can run this by doing: topit { }. For example, this is how you would use this trick to monitor how many users are logged on to the current server: topit { get-logonstatistics } -timer 10 The cool thing about this is that it works against any cmd in the world! Huzzah! (I can't believe I just said "huzzah").; posted on Wednesday, May 03, 2006 8:05 PM Print

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#: Lee; 5/4/2006 10:05 PM; Cool! Here's an implementation of 'top' I wrote, if you're looking for that specific tool :) http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/AccessingPerformanceCountersInMSH.aspx

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