How to capture the output of a top command in a file in linux?

Question

I want to write the output of a specific \'top\' command to a file. I did some googling and find out that it can be done by using the following command.

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Answer 1

CTRL+C is not a ideal solution due to control stays in CLI. You can use below command which dumps top output to a file:

top -n 1 -b > top-output.txt