One of the few things I missed when I made my move from Linux to OSX is the ability to use htop. As many of you might know, OSX is based on Mach Kernel – a custom implementation of Unix. So right out of the box OSX gives you the power of many *nix command line tools, which is why users who are comfortable with *nix systems, fit right at home with OSX.

Unfortunately htop doesn’t have OSX binary available so you will basically have to install it from source. Fortunately, there is an OSX specific htop project out there.

First you will need to install git (skip if you already have git installed):

curl http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.3.3.tar.gz -O

tar xzvf git-1.6.3.3.tar.gz 

cd git-1.6.3.3

make configure 

./configure --prefix=/usr/local

NO_MSGFMT=yes make prefix=/usr/local all

sudo make install

Now you can use git to install htop-osx:

git clone git://github.com/AndyA/htop-osx.git

cd htop-osx

git checkout -b osx origin/osx

./autogen.sh

./configure

make 

sudo make install

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