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In top screen, by default it shows all users' processes. How to exclude some users(for example, root and nobody) from the top real-time screen?

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top -U root shows only processes from root. Unfortunately that is the only option for limiting users according to the man page.

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But if you wanted to deviate from using top, you could do ps aux | grep -v $USERNAME to see all processes except the user you specified. – Tim Jan 6 at 18:14
Thanks. I know those two commands. I've searched around but didn't find anyone ask about this. top -u can see one user, but I want to see more users in real-time. – garconcn Jan 6 at 18:22
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top | egrep -ve "(root|knoppix)"? Modify to suit your requirements. – user1125087 Jan 7 at 2:52
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