Bye Bye Netstat


I have been using the netstat command for so long, I felt a little sad it’s been deprecated. It has gone the way of the ifconfig.

Now I learned to use ip instead of ifconfig. I sure can learn to use ss instead of netstat.

So far, I have this, easy to remember, easy to type. It shows the open TCP ports, i.e. what I want to do almost all of the time:

$ ss -plant