Output from "top" in shell module does not display the entire "COMMAND" column string

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Hello,

ansible
-i <inventory_file>
-m shell
-a “top -b -n 1 -d 1”
-K -b --become-user=root

Look at pid 4 where the result is “rcu_par**+**” and should be “rcu_par_gp”. Why?:

ansible output:

| CHANGED | rc=0 >>
… <>
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1 root 20 0 245612 11128 8084 S 0.0 0.3 21:04.17 systemd
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:18.99 kthreadd
3 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_gp
4 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_par+
… <>

While running on the host it displays:

… <>
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1 root 20 0 245612 11128 8084 S 0.0 0.3 21:04.18 systemd
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:18.99 kthreadd
3 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_gp
4 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_par_gp
… <>

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Output width. Your output is being truncated at the default 80 columns.
Add, say “-w 180” to your top parameter list.
(Also, top doesn’t require --become; any id can run top.)

Cheers,

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Thanks Todd, it worked perfectly.

Taking advantage of the subject, do you know any similar command in AIX (would it be topas?). I can’t run it in the background.