Filter top using process name in Linux

To display statistics only for a process name that match a string using top, you could use the following:

top -c -p $(pgrep -d',' -f firefox)

Here is a screenshot which only shows stats for firefox:

Hope this helps! Cheers!

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F.J. Cobas says:
January 25, 2023 at 3:16 PM
Another method:
Press the ‘o’ or ‘O’ to activate filter prompt. It will show a line indicating the filter format like this –
add filter #1 (ignoring case) as: [!]FLD?VAL
Then enter a filter like this and hit Enter.
COMMAND=apache
Now top will show only those processes whose COMMAND field contains the value apache.
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