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htop — Interactive Process Viewer

Interactive process and resource monitor for the terminal. Covers function keys, sorting, filtering, signal sending, tree view, threads, and how to read load averages and memory correctly. Compares with top, btop, and bottom.
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lsof & ss — Open Files and Sockets

Diagnose what's holding a port, which files a process has open, and the state of every TCP/UDP socket using lsof and the modern iproute2 ss utility.
lsof ss lsfd sockets networking processes debug cli sysadmin web-researched

ps, ss & netstat — Processes & Sockets

Inspect running processes (ps), list network connections and listening ports (ss / netstat). Covers output formats, filtering, process trees, and socket state analysis.
ps netstat ss processes networking sockets cli sysadmin web-researched