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I want top to just give me the results when I call it and then exit. How can this be done?

top's manpage does not list any flag for this purpose.

Also, I do not want to use ps -eLf for the purpose.

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From the top manpage:

-n : Number of iterations limit as:  -n number
        Specifies the maximum number of iterations,
        or frames, top should produce before ending.

So just run:

top -n 1
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