Which command do you currently use to find out which processes are running on your computer? My bet is that you are using ‘ps‘ and that you are using various switches to get the output you desire.

Install ‘htop‘. It is definitely a tool you will wish that you installed earlier.

htop provides a list of all running processes in the terminal much like the file manager in Windows.

You can use a mixture of function keys to change the sort order and the columns that are displayed. You can also kill processes from within htop.

To run htop simply type the following into the terminal window:

htop