Option for process list acquisition and data dumping

[BenBE]

There should be some option for htop to be run in a "CLI one-shot" mode, that only gathers all data for the process list (and maybe meters?) and dumps them to stdout in a machine-readable format (bonus points, if its also human-readable).

The dump content provided may depend on some flavour given; like basic (only shown columns), full (gather all columns, even ones normally disabled when not shown), extended (like full, but also including internal data like highlighting offsets).

[daniejstriata]

I logged a similar request. I'd like to consolidate all the software I use for monitoring and troubleshooting. It would make a big difference if I can run htop and have it output to file, on each run, so I can pull out what I need. This output would be understood by all the admins and have a familiar look as most of the guys use htop.

Better even if there are filters like htop --manual CPU that would print out just the CPU portion of htop for that moment.