{"id":12543,"date":"2014-09-09T13:52:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T11:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.trifork.com\/?p=12543"},"modified":"2014-09-09T13:52:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T11:52:57","slug":"htop-the-process-viewer-for-linux-and-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trifork.nl\/blog\/htop-the-process-viewer-for-linux-and-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Htop – The process viewer for Linux and Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HtopIn this short blog I will introduce you to a useful tool called Htop<\/a>, a process viewer for Linux, which is also available for Mac. In the words of Htop’s author Hisham Muhammad, it aims to be a better alternative to the top program. Among other features it provides full horizontal and vertical scrolling, searching and filtering.<\/p>\n

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Getting Started with Htop<\/h2>\n

Install with Apt…<\/h3>\n

Htop may not be installed on your system by default so you can install it with apt:<\/p>\n

\n$ sudo apt-get install htop\n<\/pre>\n
Or, build from source<\/h3>\n
Alternatively, you can download and build the 1.0.3 version from the htop Github repo<\/a>. My Ubuntu 14.4 system still uses htop 1.0.2-3 and several bugs have been fixed in 1.0.3 so let’s use the latest version. Note that you might have to install automake, libtool as well as libncurses5-dev, since htop is an ncurses application.<\/p>\n
\n$ wget https:\/\/github.com\/hishamhm\/htop\/archive\/1.0.3.zip\n$ unzip 1.0.3.zip\n$ cd htop-1.0.3\n$ sudo apt-get install automake libtool libncurses5-dev\n$ .\/autogen\n$ .\/configure && make\n$ sudo make install\n<\/pre>\n
Run!<\/h3>\n
\n$ htop\n<\/pre>\n
Here is a screenshot of htop:<\/p>\n
\"Htop<\/a><\/p>\n
Tour of Htop’s features<\/h2>\n
Basics<\/h3>\n
One great feature is that you can scroll horizontally to the right to view the entire command line of every process. Also, you can use the mouse to select processes or menu items.<\/p>\n
Filtering<\/h3>\n
Below are a few useful ways to filter processes:<\/p>\n