aristocratos/bashtop

Health v2 · maintenance only

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11119 stars · 555 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Bashtop is a terminal-based resource monitor written in Bash that displays usage and stats for CPU, memory, disks, network, and processes. It features a game-inspired menu system, process filtering and signaling, and theme support, and has since been superseded by the C++ version btop++.

Use cases

• monitor cpu and memory usage in the terminal
• view disk and network usage stats from the command line
• kill or signal a running process from a terminal ui
• filter and sort processes interactively
• find an htop alternative with a nicer interface
• watch network traffic with auto-scaling graphs

When to choose

• you want a full-featured resource monitor on Linux, macOS, or FreeBSD without installing compiled dependencies
• you prefer a rich terminal UI with menus, themes, and process management
• you only have Bash 4.4+ available

When to avoid

• you want the actively developed version - use btop++ instead
• you need monitoring on Windows
• you need very low overhead, since a Bash-based monitor is heavier than native tools

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

monitoring terminal-ui developer-tools monitoring developer-tools cli system-monitor process-manager bash htop-alternative resource-monitor command-line linux macos

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