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Get the process consuming the most CPU with a trimmed down version of ps, i.e., in busybox
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cpu-hog-with-top.sh
# get the list of PIDs and cpu usage via the batch version of top if ps is not fully functional, take out the headers, sort numerically using the 9th column, which is the CPU usage as key, take the last one, and extract the second column
top -n 1 -b | tail -n +8 | sort -k9 -n | tail -1 | cut -d ' ' -f 2
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