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Is there a way to have the list of processes in htop only display as the name of the command, rather than the full pathname w/ flags?

Yewge
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As an update, now apparently there is an option in Setup/DisplayItems Show Program Path that is checked by default. Just need to uncheck that so only the command name is shown.

mfink
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Apparently not. You can however go to Setup/DisplayItems to Highlight the basenames.

It doesn't only list the command like you want, but it atleast makes it a little more visible.

Joel K
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  • Ah. The highlighting helps a lot. Thx. Seems sort of dumb to not provide an option for basename-only listings, though -- it's extremely noisy the way it is now. – Yewge Jan 20 '10 at 13:51
  • There's a PR in htop github that may help resolving this issue some day: https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/pull/184 – Greg Dubicki Aug 07 '15 at 09:59
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To make htop display only nginx processes:

htop -p $(pgrep nginx | paste -s -d,)
Michael Hampton
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user455503
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  • `htop -p $(pgrep nginx | paste -s -d, )` the space before the last closed bracket is important else the command gives an error `htop: option requires an argument -- 'p'` in my case. Second, the mentioned error occurs, when no process of this name is running at all – Hartmut Pfarr Feb 01 '20 at 11:53
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As an addition to @mfink answer.

When you open htop, press F2, then scroll to Display options, left arrow, scroll down to Show program path and uncheck with space.

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Borislav Gizdov
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As an addendum to previous answers, that pointed to F2/Display Options/Show program path.

You can toggle this on/off by pressing p in the main screen of htop.

Lars
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