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

if you really love top, you could try:

top -b -n 1 | grep skype

e.g.

kent$  top -b -n 1 |grep dropbox
 4039 kent      20   0  184m  14m 5464 S    0  0.4   0:58.30 dropbox