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Display dynamic real-time information about running processes.

More information.

• Start 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})

• Get help about interactive commands:

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