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Display dynamic real-time information about running processes.
More information: https://manned.org/top.
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- Do not show any idle or zombie processes:
top -i
- Show only processes owned by given user:
top -u username
- Sort processes by a field:
top -o field_name
- Show the individual threads of a given process:
top -Hp 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 $(pgrep -d ',' process_name)
- Display help about interactive commands:
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