Top unix command ascending order

linux shell unix terminal top-command

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Solution 1

Using F you'd get you to the menu of fields. Using s would set what field would do the sorting. Press ESC to escape from the menu then to change Ascending/Descending mode, use R.

Solution 2

Did you have a look at other utilities ? I personally like htop which I found more friendly and easy to use than the traditional top.

Install

sudo apt-get install htop

Run

htop

Actions are available through F1 to F10 keys.

Preview

Htop showing a computing load (cc licence)

Solution 3

If you type ? in top, it gives you help that tells you that R toggles the sort order.

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Updated on September 03, 2020

Comments

Death Metal over 3 years

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and have recently started working on bash. I need to display say memory or CPU in ascending order.

command : top

shift F, this shows window of all the column. I select n for memory and it is ordered in descending order. Same thing goes with CPU. I am unable to display these in ascending order. I have tried with shift O, O, R, shift R, P.
- neverMind9 over 5 years
  
  Why not move this to Unix.StackExchange.com?
Death Metal over 10 years

with Shift+r, I can see processes related to only user, it doesn't display of root. Also, it shows all 0, 0, I cannot understand why.
Death Metal over 10 years

@ konsolebox and Edourad Lopez - thank you very much for usage of R and htop installation.
SpinUp __ A Davis almost 7 years

Unlike h, this works in both BSD and GNU top