Simplified Manual Pages |
The standard set of manual pages (often called man pages) which are available in most flavours of Linux, BSD and Unix tend to be long and they can be cryptic. Manual pages tend to list what options are available without explaining why we might use them. Further, many manual pages do not provide examples.
The TLDR-pages project has compiled a collection of simplified manual pages which present commands with a clear explanation of what each command does and lists examples of how the command is most often used. These simplified pages are available below.
top
Display dynamic real-time information about running processes.
More information: home page
- Start `top`:
top
- 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:
?
The TLDR manual pages are distributed under the
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY).
The project's scripts are licensed under the MIT license:
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2014 the TLDR team and contributors.
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