Ubuntu – How filter top output by the COMMAND column

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I want get the same result when pressing u to filter by USER, but instead using the column COMMAND and of course, I need this live (I mean, updating constantly) 😉

I'm on Ubuntu.

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How do you like this?

watch -n 1 "ps auxw | head -n 1; ps auxw | awk '\$11 ~ /bash/ { print \$0 }' | sort -k 3 -r -n"

Replace bash with the command you want to filter for.

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Linux – Check Environment Variables of a Running Process on Unix

cat /proc/<pid>/environ

If you want to have pid(s) of a given running executable you can, among a number of other possibilities, use pidof:

AlberT$ pidof sshd   
30690 6512

EDIT:

I totally quote Dennis Williamson and Teddy comments to achieve a more readable output. My solution is the following:

tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/<pid>/environ

Show full process name in top

While top is running, you can press c to toggle between showing the process name and the command line. To remember the toggle state for next time, press W to save the current configuration to ~/.toprc.

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