Line output with awk

Question

There is a command and its output:

ps aux --sort=-%cpu | head -2 | sort -r

root         1  0.0  0.0    904   520 ?        Sl   12:09   0:00 /init
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND

How to print only the first line with awk? or only second lane like this:

root         1  0.0  0.0    904   520 ?        Sl   12:09   0:00 /init

or this:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND

Does this answer your question? [Bash tool to get nth line from a file](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6022384/bash-tool-to-get-nth-line-from-a-file) — lojza, Aug 22 '22 at 12:19

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 22 '22 at 12:20

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ps aux --sort=-%cpu | awk 'NR==1'

ps aux --sort=-%cpu | awk 'NR==2'

No need for head or sort.

answered Aug 22 '22 at 12:20

Ed Morton

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