top Command Examples

Display dynamic real-time information about running processes. More information: https://manned.org/top.

• Start top:

top

• Do not show any idle or zombie processes:

top {{[-i|--idle-toggle]}}

• Show only processes owned by given user:

top {{[-u|--filter-only-euser]}} {{username}}

• Sort processes by a field:

top {{[-o|--sort-override]}} {{field_name}}

• Show the individual threads of a given process:

top {{[-Hp|--threads-show --pid]}} {{process_id}}

• Show only the processes with the given PID(s), passed as a comma-separated list. (Normally you wouldn't know PIDs off hand. This example picks the PIDs from the process name):

top {{[-p|--pid]}} $(pgrep {{[-d|--delimiter]}} ',' {{process_name}})

• Display help about interactive commands:

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