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Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.

Terminal - Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.
netstat -lantp | grep -i establ | awk -F/ '{print $2}' | uniq | sort
2009-09-19 13:54:36
User: ktoso
Functions: awk grep netstat uniq
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Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.

Can be used to discover what programms create internet traffic. Skip the part after awk to get more details.

Has anyone an idea why the uniq doesn't work propperly here (see sample output)?

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Alternatives

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Terminal - Alternatives
lsof -P -i -n
2009-09-19 18:28:48
User: OJM
Tags: bash grep netstat internet
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Show apps that use internet connection at the moment. (Multi-Language)
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ss -p
2009-09-19 21:55:01
User: Escher
Tags: bash grep netstat internet ss
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Show apps that use internet connection at the moment. (Multi-Language)

for one line per process:

ss -p | cat

for established sockets only:

ss -p | grep STA

for just process names:

ss -p | cut -f2 -sd\"

or

ss -p | grep STA | cut -f2 -d\"
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lsof -P -i -n | cut -f 1 -d " "| uniq | tail -n +2
2009-09-19 21:23:54
User: edo
Functions: cut tail uniq
Tags: bash grep lsof internet
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Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.

show only the name of the apps that are using internet

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netstat -lantp | grep -i stab | awk -F/ '{print $2}' | sort | uniq
2009-09-19 14:54:31
User: ProMole
Functions: awk grep netstat sort
Tags: bash grep netstat internet
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Show apps that use internet connection at the moment. (Multi-Language)

Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.

Can be used to discover what programms create internet traffic. Skip the part after awk to get more details, though it will not work showing only unique processes.

This version will work with other languages such as Spanish and Portuguese, if the word for "ESTABLISHED" still contain the fragment "STAB"(e.g. "ESTABELECIDO")

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netstat -lantp | grep -i establ | awk -F/ '{print $2}' | sort | uniq
2009-09-19 14:42:31
User: HarimaKenji
Functions: awk grep netstat sort
Tags: bash grep netstat internet
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Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.

This corrects duplicate output from the previous command.

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You should sort it before you use uniq, because uniq looks only at each line and its neighbors to catch duplicates.

Comment by HarimaKenji 49 weeks and 5 days ago

Hah, such simple solution! Thanks for the tip.

Comment by ktoso 49 weeks and 5 days ago

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