title: How to suppress the general information for top command
body: <p>I wish to suppress the general information for the top command 
  using a <code>top parameter</code>.</p>
  
  <p>By general information  I mean the below stuff :</p>
  
  <pre><code>top - 09:35:05 up  3:26,  2 users,  load average: 0.29, 0.22, 0.21
  Tasks:   1 total,   0 running,   1 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
  Cpu(s):  2.3%us,  0.7%sy,  0.0%ni, 96.3%id,  0.8%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
  Mem:   3840932k total,  2687880k used,  1153052k free,    88380k buffers
  Swap:  3998716k total,        0k used,  3998716k free,   987076k cached
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What I <strong>do not</strong> wish to do is :</p>
  
  <pre><code>top -u user | grep process_name
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>or</p>
  
  <pre><code>top -bp $(pgrep process_name) | do_something
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I achieve this?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Note</strong>: I am on Ubuntu 12.04 and top version is 3.2.8.</p>