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htop

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Display dynamic real-time information about running processes. An enhanced version of `top`. See also: `top`, `atop`, `glances`, `btop`, `btm`.

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Options (4)

-u, --userboolean

Start `htop` displaying processes owned by a specific user

Example: htop {{[-u|--user]}} {{username}}
-t, --treeboolean

Display processes hierarchically in a tree view to show the parent-child relationships

Example: htop {{[-t|--tree]}}
-s, --sortboolean

Sort processes by a specified `sort_item` (use `htop --sort help` for available options)

Example: htop {{[-s|--sort]}} {{sort_item}}
-d, --delayboolean

Start `htop` with the specified delay between updates, in tenths of a second (i.e. 50 = 5 seconds)

Example: htop {{[-d|--delay]}} {{50}}

Examples (8)

Start `htop`

htop

Start `htop` displaying processes owned by a specific user

htop [-u|--user] username

Display processes hierarchically in a tree view to show the parent-child relationships

htop [-t|--tree]

Sort processes by a specified `sort_item` (use `htop --sort help` for available options)

htop [-s|--sort] sort_item

Start `htop` with the specified delay between updates, in tenths of a second (i.e. 50 = 5 seconds)

htop [-d|--delay] 50

Disable all system and process changing features

htop --readonly

See interactive commands while running `htop`

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