How to make htop sort by PID

Question

How can you make htop sort the list of processes by PID?

Solution 1

htop --sort-key PID

appears to work. Found it via htop --help.

htop --sort-key help

shows a list of all the column keys.

Solution 2

Press F6 and select PID...

Comments

[tony_sid]

Is there another way without having to press F6?

[HikeMike]

@OSX Press >.

[tony_sid]

That causes the program to crash.

[HikeMike]

@OSX It works on my machine and is documented in htop's man page. It would work if you didn't have another issue.

[new123456]

I'm going to upvote you only because I think the OP is a little stingy here - there's nothing wrong with F6, and almost keyboard where it doesn't exist (with few exceptions).

[tony_sid]

I'm using an external keyboard, and F6 is assigned to do something else. In order to use F6 as a function key, I have to press the Fn button, but that's not on the external keyboard.

[HikeMike]

@OSXJedi As I wrote before, press > (greater than) instead.