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Underappreciated top (friendo.monster)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Always thought top was one of those programs frozen in time since the 70s, but apparently, it has a feature set comparable to htop and the like. The default configuration just doesn't show much of it...

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I always killed processes with ps -ef | grep and then kill

you could check pgrep <process-name> too

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That is a good tip. Unfortunately, I am too fish to understand it. 🙃

    I just type ps and in 9 out of 10 cases, my shell suggests ps -ef | grep <process-name>. So, it's actually less for me to type than "pgrep"...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Far from me to try to bash a suggestion's on one's head but ^rpg or ^r<process-name> (for reverse-i-search) is probably quite fast, obviously depends entirely on your typical usage. Hard to do less than 2 keystrokes I admit.

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