How can I find a specific process with “top” in a Mac terminal

Question

I\'ve tried top | grep skype for example but it doesn\'t work. I\'m trying to find a specific process by name.

Answer 1

Tested on MacOSX Mojave. It works a bit different than linux.

top -pid doesn't expect a comma separated list of pids, it expects only one pid. So I had to changed it a little to work with several pids.

top -pid $(pgrep -d' -pid ' -f Python)

filter all Python process on top. It essentially becomes something like this:

top -pid 123 -pid 836 -pid 654