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How is a netstat incantation better than a systemctl incantation?

• Karunamon 12y ago
  Because change for change's sake is often not a good thing? Thats only a couple decades worth of muscle memory thrown down the toilet...
  • qznc 12y ago
    You should unlearn netstat anyways. Its own man pages declares it obsolete. And it was obsolete before systemd appeared. https://dougvitale.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/deprecated-linux-networking-commands-and-their-replacements/ https://dougvitale.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/deprecated-linux...
    • digi_owl 12y ago
      Dunno about anyone else, but i prefer ifconfig over ip. At least for smaller tasks like toggling a interface up or down.
    • Karunamon 12y ago
      And it uses a completely different output format for all of its commands. Obsolete, maybe, but the net-tools do their jobs admirably.
    • BuildTheRobots 12y ago
      Thanks, wasn't aware of that. Though from quick testing, the output of `ss -nlp` seems entirely unreadable compared to `netstat -nlp`.