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Display dynamic real-time information about running processes.
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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})
- Get help about interactive commands:
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