Pexpect idea - but can I handle curses?

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Subject	Pexpect idea - but can I handle curses?
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I have this tweak I'd like to make to the top command (Linux only is fine).
Most of the time I want to see just one user or all users. Every now and
again though, I'd like to see all users except another.  Top doesn't
support this functionality, but I thought something like "-u -root" would
be a handy extension. Another would be to watch multiple users, e.g. -u
skip,bob. I thought I could fire up a top command showing all users in a
pseudo tty with a fake huge number of lines, then elide the rows matching
unwanted users. However... I have a feeling I might be fairly seriously
challenged trying to work with top's raw output, as it probably does
something more sophisticated than clear the screen and spit out rows. Will
I be in over my head trying to tweak the output? Hmmm... maybe if I tell
top TERM=dumb?

Anyway, before I get in over my head on the input side, I thought I would
check to see if I'm likely to hit a brick wall on the output side...

Thx,

Skip

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Pexpect idea - but can I handle curses? Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2015-03-13 10:17 -0500
  Re: Pexpect idea - but can I handle curses? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-03-13 16:54 +0100
    Re: Pexpect idea - but can I handle curses? Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2015-03-13 11:20 -0500
      Re: Pexpect idea - but can I handle curses? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-03-13 18:03 +0100
        Re: Pexpect idea - but can I handle curses? Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2015-03-13 12:25 -0500
          Re: Pexpect idea - but can I handle curses? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-03-13 23:47 +0100
            Re: Pexpect idea - but can I handle curses? Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2015-03-13 19:14 -0500
              Re: Pexpect idea - but can I handle curses? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-03-14 20:19 +0100
                Re: Pexpect idea - but can I handle curses? Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2015-03-14 20:05 -0500
                Re: Pexpect idea - but can I handle curses? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-03-15 10:23 +0100

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