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linux question

My little brother has asked when using the 'top' command how can you invoke it to just display the top 4 processes? I would imagine using sed and grep any help would be much appriciated i am somwhat rusty on terminal commands.

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Start top, then press the "n" key, then enter the number of lines you want to see on your screen

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Hey, thekemp, how goes the cat door?

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