How to make htop sort by PID

Question

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

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 27 '11 at 23:04

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htop --sort-key PID

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

htop --sort-key help

shows a list of all the column keys.

answered Apr 27 '11 at 23:04

BigChief

score 13 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 27 '11 at 05:09

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Press F6 and select PID...

answered Apr 27 '11 at 05:09

Daniel Beck

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Is there another way without having to press F6? – tony_sid Apr 27 '11 at 05:37
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@OSX Press `>`. – Daniel Beck Apr 27 '11 at 05:39
That causes the program to crash. – tony_sid Apr 27 '11 at 05:47
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@OSX It works on my machine and is documented in [htop's man page](http://linux.die.net/man/1/htop). It *would* work if you didn't have another issue. – Daniel Beck Apr 27 '11 at 05:48
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). – new123456 Apr 27 '11 at 22:55
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. – tony_sid Apr 30 '11 at 05:45
@OSXJedi As I wrote before, press `>` (greater than) instead. – Daniel Beck Apr 30 '11 at 06:02

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