bashtop – top on steroids on bash

Do you have bash and do you want a damn pretty good top command without installing a bunch of dependencies, stop searching you’ve found bashtop.

Installation

Easy installation, it’s just a single script, you can clone (or download) it from its page in Github:

git clone https://github.com/aristocratos/bashtop.git
cd bashtop
sudo make install

Alternatively if you are in Ubuntu you can add its repository and installer (my preferred method to receive updates):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bashtop-monitor/bashtop
sudo apt update
sudo apt install bashtop

Running bashtop

Just run it from command line:

bashtop

You can see several zones on screen with:

• CPU load.
• Memory usage.
• Disk partitions.
• Network activity.
• Processes list.

Press q to exit, you can also browse the processes and change a lot of options (press h for help).

Other screenshot from the author:

References

• GitHib page of bashtop